The place where 10-year-old Nazwa’s home used to be is now nothing more than a pile of rubble.

It has been more than a week since her village in west Palu, in the island of Sulawesi, was hit by the most devastating earthquake and tsunami Indonesia has experienced in almost a decade.

Nazwa, her father Muslimin and mother Novita, remember fearing for their lives when the 7.4 magnitude earthquake hit just after 6pm on 28 September.

The shock caused liquefaction, a phenomenon that causes soil to behave like liquid, which led to entire villages being swept away.

“About 1,045 houses are gone, swallowed, and destroyed in this village alone,” Muslimin said.

This was followed by a tsunami that struck Talise beach in Palu City, and the beach in Donggala, both on the west coast of Sulawesi island. By the first week of October, authorities had confirmed 1,948 deaths, 10,679 people seriously injured and 835 people still missing.

Numbers are expected to rise as people are still trapped under collapsed buildings and rescue teams continue to search affected areas.

There are 74,444 displaced people across 190 evacuation centres, and an estimated 46,000 children are in urgent need of assistance.