在印尼，直升机运送救援物资到印度尼西亚苏门达腊岛偏远地带的地震灾区，该地区的村庄全部都被上星期地震所引发的大规模泥石流冲毁。
许多地方至今道路不通，迫使当局向灾区空投粮食和必需品。紧急救难人员已将工作重点从寻找生还者转移到运送救援物资。
在苏门达腊岛的主要城市巴东，仅管人们担心还有更多的尸体被压在瓦砾堆中，但是拆卸工人还是开始拆卸震垮的建筑物。在巴东的救难人员星期二觉得他们从倒塌的饭店里听到了一名女性求救的哭声，不过，经过搜查后，没有发现任何生还者。他们决定重新开始饭店的拆卸工程。
印尼官方公布的死亡人数截至星期二为止上升到704人，295人失踪。政府当局表示，这次地震造成的伤亡人数可能破千。
Helicopters are delivering earthquake aid to remote communities on the Indonesian island of Sumatra where whole villages were destroyed in massive mudslides following last week’s quake.
Many of the areas remain inaccessible by road — forcing authorities to air drop food and supplies. Emergency workers have shifted their focus from finding survivors to providing aid.
On the island’s main city of Padang, demolition crews are knocking down buildings, despite fears that more bodies could remain under the rubble.
On Tuesday, rescue workers in the city thought they heard a woman crying for help from under a collapsed hotel, but a search determined there were no signs of life and demolition of the hotel resumed.
Indonesia’s official death toll rose Tuesday to 704, with 295 missing, but authorities say the number of casualties from the quake could climb into the thousands.