Foreign military help began arriving on the island Wednesday when two Singaporean helicopters landed to distribute some food and water to a frantic crowd of survivors.
Japan and Australian also planned military missions, and an Australian military transport flight headed to the quake zone yesterday packed with medical supplies.
US State Department spokesman Adam Ereli said US naval ships and the medical ships, Niagara Falls and Mercy, were steaming toward the battered islands.
Early yesterday, a magnitude-6.3 aftershock was reported off the west coast of Sumatra, the Colorado-based US Geological Survey said. There were no immediate reports of tsunami warnings.
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