Over in Indonesia, the death toll from a tsunami on the islands of Java and Sumatra has jumped to at least 373 people.
According to the nation's disaster mitigation agency, one-thousand-4-hundred-59 people are injured while 128 remain missing.
The numbers could increase once authorities hear from all the stricken areas along the coastlines of western Java and southern Sumatra.
Rescue workers have been using their bare hands as well as heavy machinery to clear the remains of buildings, and hundreds of people have searched the beaches along the Sunda Strait for more victims.
The tsunami hit the Indonesian strait on Saturday, smashing into buildings and sweeping people into the sea, following an eruption and possible landslide on Anak Krakatoa, a volcanic island that emerged from the sea in the 1920s.
According to the nation's disaster mitigation agency, one-thousand-4-hundred-59 people are injured while 128 remain missing.
The numbers could increase once authorities hear from all the stricken areas along the coastlines of western Java and southern Sumatra.
Rescue workers have been using their bare hands as well as heavy machinery to clear the remains of buildings, and hundreds of people have searched the beaches along the Sunda Strait for more victims.
The tsunami hit the Indonesian strait on Saturday, smashing into buildings and sweeping people into the sea, following an eruption and possible landslide on Anak Krakatoa, a volcanic island that emerged from the sea in the 1920s.
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