A major earthquake struck off the city of Padang on the coast of Indonesia's Sumatra island on Wednesday, damaging houses, bringing down bridges and starting fires, a witness said.
Tourists are seen enjoying the sun on a beach in Bali. A strong 6.4 quake rattled Indonesia's resort island on Saturday, hours after a quake struck Sulawesi island, but there were no immediate reports of major damage or serious casualties from either.
Villagers inspect their damaged houses after an earthquake in Pengalengan, in the West Java province of Indonesia September 8, 2009. More than 25,000 people have been displaced in West Java since the earthquake, which hit just off the coast on Wednesday, and an estimated 86,000 homes were damaged, although no major power or industrial installations were hit.
The damage from the Tuesday Sept. 29, 2009 tsunami that struck the village of Leone in American Samoa, approximately ten miles west of the port city of Pago Pago. Television images showed homes ripped apart, cars submerged in the sea or lodged in trees and large fishing boats hurled ashore by the waves generated by a 8.0 magnitude quake southwest of American Samoa.
Convicted murderer and former Charles Manson family member, Susan Atkins, is wheeled into a parole hearing room in a moveable bed by medical personnel as her attorney and husband, James Whitehouse, watches at the Central California Women's Facility in Chowchilla, California September 2, 2009. Atkins was again denied parole, remaining the longest-incarcerated female inmate in the California penal system.
Electoral Complaints Commission audit the disputed ballots at Independent Elections Commission, in Kabul, Afghanistan, Sunday, Sept. 13, 2009. Afghan President Hamid Karzai hung onto his 54 percent to 28 percent lead over his closest rival Sunday in the presidential contest as allegations of ballot stuffing and phantom polling stations have marred the Aug. 20 election, threatening Afghanistan's political stability at a time of rising Taliban violence and an increased U.S. military presence.
An Afghan electoral worker counts ballots at a polling station in