PORT ANGELES — The Indonesian city involved in a technical assistance exchange program with Port Angeles probably escaped damage from Sunday’s 9.0-magnitude earthquake and ensuing tsunami.
But city officials are awaiting news from officials in Tanjung Redep, on the east coast of the Indonesian island of Borneo.
“That’s what we suspect but haven’t heard from them,” Public Works Director Glenn Cutler said Monday.
“I’m sending an e-mail today to see how they are doing.”
Borneo is east of Sumatra in the 3,000-mile-long string of Indian Ocean islands that comprise Indonesia.
The tsunami that followed the earthquake, centered beneath the Indian Ocean west of Sumatra, traveled north and west to mainland Asia and Africa.
Cutler and City Manager Michael Quinn traveled to Indonesia in April as part of a collaborative program of the International City Management Association.
The federally funded program provides technical assistance from U.S. city officials to their counterparts in developing countries.