An Indonesian woman mourns the death of her family members at the site where her family was buried alive in the Sumatran city of Tandiket on October 3, 2009. (MANAN VATSYAYANA/AFP/Getty Images)
The recent earthquake tragedy that struck the town of Padang, Indonesia on the 30th of September shook everyone, everywhere. The death and injured figures are unfathomable. Despite this, help came from all over the world, from countries as far as Russia and Turkey.
The 7.6 magnitude quake toppled buildings and started many landslides, smashing homes and swallowing up entire villages. The following day, As rescue workers arrived and residents tried their best to dig out and help the survivors, another unrelated quake with a magnitude of 6.6 struck less than 1,000 km south of the original epicenter. Each of the two quakes had at least one aftershock greater than 5.0 as well. Over 1,000 people are known to have died, an additional 3,000 still missing.
The photographs below were taken from
boston.com by photographers with enough courage to document the efforts to save lives there. Their pictures tell a stories of hope, fear and courage.
A survivor squats on top of the ruins of a village hit by a landslide which occured when an earthquake hit the area of Kapalo Koto in Pariaman, West Sumatra province October 5, 2009. (REUTERS/Nicky Loh)
An injured girl cries during an evacuation immediately after an earthquake hit Padang, Indonesia's Sumatra island September 30, 2009. (REUTERS/Muhammad Fitrah/Singgalang Newspaper)
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A man runs near a burning houses after a powerful earthquake in Padang, West Sumatra, Indonesia, Wednesday, Sept. 30, 2009. (AP Photo)
Rescue workers from UAE meet before carrying out activities as dusk settles on the Ambacang Hotel on Saturday Oct. 3, 2009 in Padang, Indonesia.(AP Photo/Wong Maye-E)
An aerial picture shows an area after landslide destroyed three villages following recent earthquakes in Pariaman on October 4, 2009. (ADEK BERRY/AFP/Getty Images)
A damaged building is seen on Saturday Oct. 3, 2009 in Padang, Indonesia. (AP Photo/Dita Alangkara)
An Indonesian search and rescue team excavate the bodies of quake victims from underneath a collapsed building during an evacuation in Padang on October 3, 2009. (ADEK BERRY/AFP/Getty Images)
A boy crawls under overhanging rubble in what used to be a market on Sunday Oct. 4, 2009 in Padang, Indonesia. (AP Photo/Binsar Bakkara)
Suri, an Indonesian woman, is rescued from the rubble of a collapsed building in the Sumatran city of Padang on October 2, 2009 after a 7.6-magnitude quake toppled buildings in the area late on September 30. (ROSLAN RAHMAN/AFP/Getty Images)
A rescue worker from Russia carries his dog onto the roof of a collapsed building in the earthquake-hit area of Padang, West Sumatra province October 4, 2009. (REUTERS/Nicky Loh)
A child lies on a mattress inside a house damaged by an earthquake in Padang Pariaman, a coastal town in the Indonesian province of West Sumatra, October 4, 2009. (REUTERS/Crack Palinggi)
The foot of an Indonesian villager who was buried by a landslide caused by last Wednesday's earthquake is seen as rescuers try to remove the body in the Sumatran Island village of Jumanak, in Padang Pariaman, Indonesia, Sunday, Oct. 4, 2009. (AP Photo/Kevin Frayer)
A motorcyclist and his passengers drive past destroyed houses at Patamuan village in Padang Pariaman, Indonesia, October 3, 2009. (REUTERS/Crack Palinggi)
Indonesian villagers take shelter from the rain in an area where a landslide destroyed hundreds of homes following last Wednesday's earthquake in the Sumatran Island village of Jumanak, in Padang Pariaman, Sunday, Oct. 4, 2009. (AP Photo/Kevin Frayer)
Rescue workers from Turkey use a scope to search for survivors inside a building in the earthquake-hit area of Padang, West Sumatra province October 4, 2009. (REUTERS/Nicky Loh)
An abandoned school classroom in the collapsed Pulau Karam college in the Sumatran Island city of Pedang, Indonesia, Sunday, Oct. 4, 2009. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus)
Nine-year-old Indah, who has two broken legs, screams in agony as she is consoled by her grandmother inside a makeshift tent erected outside the partially destroyed M Djamil hospital in Padang, Indonesia on October 3, 2009. (REUTERS/Dylan Martinez)
Only the hair of a victim killed by the earthquake is visible amongst dirt and rubble, after she was uncovered in a destroyed building in central Padang, Indonesia's West Sumatra province in the early hours of October 4, 2009. (REUTERS/Dylan Martinez)
Nasirwan, 26, digs a grave for his father, a victim of a the September 30 quake at Lubuk Laweh village in Pariaman, West Sumatra, on October 5, 2009. (BAY ISMOYO/AFP/Getty Images)
A traditional "minangkabau" designed building flattened by an earthquake is seen in Padang, West Sumatra, Indonesia, Friday, Oct. 2, 2009. (AP Photo/Yasser Arafat)
Hands protrude from rubble as rescue efforts continue on October 3, 2009 in Padang, Indonesia. (Daniel Berehulak/Getty Images)
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