Padang (Antara News) – Indonesia Territory hit by 6.632 disasters during 13 years from 1997 to 2009. It showed that the country is a disaster prone area. “2008 was the year with highest disaster number, i.e. 1.302 events”, said Riswan Yunus, the ...
Source Mechanism of this earthquake was indicating the activity of Indian Ocean Plate Subduction beneath the island of Southwest Maluku Islands. There are two active seismic source in the area; first, the subduction from the south, today ...
Tectonically Sumbawa and Flores Island are sited on 2 subduction. From the north is by Banda sea plate and from the south by Indian ocean-Australia plate. These two plate are seismically active. The recent earthquake in the early morning of today ...
PT Asuransi MAIPARK Indonesia conducted Geo Tour on Friday, August 7, 2009 visiting Mount Tangkuban Parahu, an old unique active volcanic complex, 35 kilometer North from Bandung city West Java, and continued observing local fault of ...
Earthquakes are generally regarded as the most
destructive force of nature. While a long-term world
-wide comparison shows that the number of deaths
and the magnitude of economic losses caused by
storms and floods by far exceed those by
earthquakes, it is nevertheless true to say that no
other natural phenomenon creates such a massive psychological shock.
Indonesian Standard Earthquake Policy