~Ring of Fire~
Last night at a little before 11, my mom called me saying that she just felt an earthquake. I didn't panic or anything coz the fact that she called me alone shows that everything is fine. Little that I know that an earthquake of 6.3 on the Richter scale shook West Sumatra, the province just beside mine which I used to visit twice a year to visit my oma when I was still living in Indo. FYI, it has killed 70 people up to date and the death toll is still counting since there are those beneath the landslide that followed the quake that are not yet found.
If you're wondering why these quakes happen so many times in Indo, well it's because Indo is
located on the so-called Pacific "Ring of Fire," an arc of volcanos and fault lines encircling the Pacific Basin. And I guess the volcanoes are having a huge conference these past 2 years.
Ada peribahasa Indo, "Sudah jatuh, tertimpa tangga pula". Directly translated, it means after you fall from the ladder, the ladder falls on you. But I think for Indo, it's not only the ladder that falls on her but also the whole wall crumbles down.
How to fix it? I can't think of where to start.
Anyways, just for general interest, I found a list of the recent natural disasters in Indo.
• March 6: An earthquake strikes Sumatra Island, killing at least 70 people and damaging hundreds of buildings.
• March 3: Landslides triggered by days of heavy rain kill at least 40 people in eastern Indonesia.
• Feb. 1: Rivers in the capital, Jakarta, burst their banks, submerging parts of the city in water up to 12 feet deep, killing 57 and displacing 450,000.
• Dec. 29, 2006: A ferry sinks in a storm, killing more than 400 people in the Java Sea.
• Dec. 23, 2006: Heavy rain touches off floods that kill more than 100 people and displace over 400,000 on Sumatra.
• July 17, 2006: An earthquake triggers a tsunami off Java island's southern coast, killing at least 600 people.
• June 19, 2006: Floods and mud flows kill up to 300 people in southern Sulawesi province.
• May 27, 2006: An earthquake in central Java kills at least 5,800 people and injures more than 36,000.
• May 2006: A series of explosions spew hot ash down the slopes of Mount Merapi, forcing 15,000 villagers to flee.
• May 2006: A mud eruption at a drilling shaft on Java displaces more than 11,000 people and inundates villages and factories, spewing a million oil drums of muck a day.
• Jan. 4, 2006: Some 200 people are killed in a landslide on Java.
• March 28, 2005: More than 900 people are killed and tens of thousands are left homeless when an earthquake hits Nias, Banyak and Simeulue islands off the coast of Sumatra.
• Dec. 26, 2004: An earthquake sets off a tsunami that kills more than 160,000 people in Indonesia, mostly in Aceh province on Sumatra.
Source: Yahoo News
Last night at a little before 11, my mom called me saying that she just felt an earthquake. I didn't panic or anything coz the fact that she called me alone shows that everything is fine. Little that I know that an earthquake of 6.3 on the Richter scale shook West Sumatra, the province just beside mine which I used to visit twice a year to visit my oma when I was still living in Indo. FYI, it has killed 70 people up to date and the death toll is still counting since there are those beneath the landslide that followed the quake that are not yet found.
If you're wondering why these quakes happen so many times in Indo, well it's because Indo is
located on the so-called Pacific "Ring of Fire," an arc of volcanos and fault lines encircling the Pacific Basin. And I guess the volcanoes are having a huge conference these past 2 years.
Ada peribahasa Indo, "Sudah jatuh, tertimpa tangga pula". Directly translated, it means after you fall from the ladder, the ladder falls on you. But I think for Indo, it's not only the ladder that falls on her but also the whole wall crumbles down.
How to fix it? I can't think of where to start.
Anyways, just for general interest, I found a list of the recent natural disasters in Indo.
• March 6: An earthquake strikes Sumatra Island, killing at least 70 people and damaging hundreds of buildings.
• March 3: Landslides triggered by days of heavy rain kill at least 40 people in eastern Indonesia.
• Feb. 1: Rivers in the capital, Jakarta, burst their banks, submerging parts of the city in water up to 12 feet deep, killing 57 and displacing 450,000.
• Dec. 29, 2006: A ferry sinks in a storm, killing more than 400 people in the Java Sea.
• Dec. 23, 2006: Heavy rain touches off floods that kill more than 100 people and displace over 400,000 on Sumatra.
• July 17, 2006: An earthquake triggers a tsunami off Java island's southern coast, killing at least 600 people.
• June 19, 2006: Floods and mud flows kill up to 300 people in southern Sulawesi province.
• May 27, 2006: An earthquake in central Java kills at least 5,800 people and injures more than 36,000.
• May 2006: A series of explosions spew hot ash down the slopes of Mount Merapi, forcing 15,000 villagers to flee.
• May 2006: A mud eruption at a drilling shaft on Java displaces more than 11,000 people and inundates villages and factories, spewing a million oil drums of muck a day.
• Jan. 4, 2006: Some 200 people are killed in a landslide on Java.
• March 28, 2005: More than 900 people are killed and tens of thousands are left homeless when an earthquake hits Nias, Banyak and Simeulue islands off the coast of Sumatra.
• Dec. 26, 2004: An earthquake sets off a tsunami that kills more than 160,000 people in Indonesia, mostly in Aceh province on Sumatra.
Source: Yahoo News
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