Victims' balance broken by the Indonesia earthquake

At least 832 are now the confirmed deaths, a balance that is still not the final one and is expected to rise significantly after rescue teams arrive in remote areas where they have not yet entered. Authorities have begun placing victims in mass graves for fear of spreading diseases. Dozens are thought to be still alive in ruins.

In Palu, emergency intervention workers are awaiting the arrival of heavy machinery to search the ruins of a hotel and a mall.

Earth's deserts that have not returned to the area have made their work very difficult, increasing their risk. Communication lines are damaged and the so necessary presence of these machines is low, we don't have enough equipment for the large number of collapsed buildings, said the spokesman for the national natural disaster agency.

A warning for the tsunami was issued Friday after the 7.5-magnitude earthquake on the Richter scale. The earth's violent tremors were followed by a six - foot - high [6 m] wave that violently made their way ashore, destroying everything in their path. Indonesian President Joko Widodo personally visited the affected region, with the request that efforts to find survivors continue day and night.