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The Indonesian Volcanology Center has raised the alert from level II to Level III on Semeru Mt in Lumajang, East Java on Friday, February 3rd, 2012 following increase of lava flow and pyroclastic flow observed over the past two days. According to information released by the center, pyroclastic flow observed 00.34 local time on Thursday which extends to the area 300 meters from the Jongring Seloko

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A magnitude-7.3 earthquake struck the western shore of Indonesia's Sumatra island on Wednesday, January 11, 2012 at 12:37:01 AM at epicenter. The epicenter located offshore at 2.396°N, 93.175°E at 29.1 km depth, 423 km (262 miles) SW of Banda Aceh, Sumatra, Indonesia. Tsunami warning being issued for coastline area of Aceh, North Sumatra, Lampung and Bengkulu forced resident lives along the

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Seven people were killed and 30 others were missing after heavy rain triggered a landslide on the Indonesian island of Nias on Wednesday, 30 November 2011. The landslide slammed into a village in Majo Kampung Barije district on the island in North Sumatra province. At least 37 houses were buried under the mud, seven people were confirmed dead and thirty other people were missing.It is known that

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The Indonesian Volcanology Center has raised the alert from level II to Level III on Anak Krakatau Mt in Sunda Srait since last Sunday of September 30, 2011 following a number of volcanic quakes and increase of solfatara zone in the mountain flank. As for info, the Center has set four levels increasing intensity of volcanic activity with level I for the lowest and level IV for the highest.Anak

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Magnitude 6.7 struck North Sumatra region on Tuesday, September 06, 2011 at 00:55 AM local time. The epicenter located 59 km northeast of Singkilbaru-Aceh, 75 km southeast of Kutacane-Aceh, 78 km southwest of Kabanjahe-North Sumatra, 100 km southwest of Medan, onshore at position 2.81°S, 97.85°E with a depth of 78 km.As in Tuesday September 6, 2011, 3.15 AM, no fatalities reported yet. Power is

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The eruption of Mount Lokon has not abated. On Sunday, August 28, 2011 at 07.51 local time, another eruption occurred again following last month eruption. According to The Volcanic and Geological Disaster Mitigation Center (PVMBG) of Indonesia, the eruptions column reached 2,500 meters from Topaluan crater of the mountain. Series of volcanic tremors were recorded since 8pm on Saturday. With an

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On Saturday, August 13, 2011 at 4am, local time, the Indonesian Volcanology Center has raised the alert from level II to Level III on Papandayan Mountain in West Java. The Center has set four levels increasing intensity of volcanic activity with level I for the lowest and level IV for the highest (alert level code chart). The 2665 m (8,743 ft) Papandayan mountain is a complex stratovolcano with

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An important report of the International Commission on Earthquake Forecasting (ICEF) entitled "Operational Earthquake Forecasting: State of Knowledge and Guidelines for Implementation", was recently published in Annals of Geophysics (vol. 54, num. 4, pp. 315-391, 2011; doi: 10.4401/ag-5350). Hopefully the report will be useful to other counties developing operational forecasting procedures and

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By: Nikki StaabArizona State University’s School of Earth and Space Exploration has teamed up with the Indonesian-based Bakrie Group to develop an international initiative called the Bakrie Initiative in Geological Hazards to support and promote research in Indonesia on the core geologic topics of volcanoes, earthquakes and hydrothermal systems.The goal of the initiative is to advance research,

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Mount Lokon in Indonesia's North Sulawesi province erupted on Thursday, July 14, 2011, 23.45 local time (eastern Indonesian time) spewing sand and ash that reached 1.500 meter in height, blanketed two villages on its slope, Kinilouw and Kakaskase. The ashes reach as far as Tondano Lake. Lava cascaded from the mouth of the crater, triggering forest fires along its western slope. Approximately

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A much larger and more explosive Merapi eruption occured on 1am, Friday, November 5, 2010 following Thursday eruption. Roaring sound and intensive volcanic tremor was heard and felt since 11pm on Thursday until several blasting sound heard around 12am to 1am. Pyroclastic surges associated with this eruption injures more than 20 people, the number expected to rise. Thick ash, sand and gravel hits

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Merapi volcano spewed clouds of hot ash and lava in a violent explosive eruption on Thursday, November 4, 2010 around 6am . The eruption column reaches 4000 meters heights. It was the largest in a series of eruptions over the past eight days. There were no reports of new casualties. Forty two causalities recorded since the beginning of eruption in October 26, 2010 (updated as in Thursday,

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An explosive eruption occurred early on Saturday, October 30, 2010 around 00.40 am following precursor eruption on Wednesday. Loud blasting sound heard from 20 km away and produce eruption column that reach as high as 3.5 km. Yogyakarta city which is located 20 km south of the volcano covered by half cm thick of ash and sand, the pouring of ash and sand occurred until it ceased around 4am. More

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The death toll of the Merapi eruption at Indonesia's Mount Merapi rose to 25 on Wednesday, October 27, 2010, while 14 people still under treatment from severe burns and more than 19,000 villagers were moved to temporary shelters.Mount Merapi spewed searing gas and volcanic debris on 5pm Tuesday, October 26, 2010 destroyed the village of Kinahrejo and Kaliadem. The volcano observatory recorded

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A magnitude of 7.7 earthquake struck Kepulauan Mentawai region of Sumatra on Monday, October 25, 2010 at 09:42:22 PM local time. Tsunami warning reported but was lifted after an hour. No causalities and damage reported yet. The earthquake caused panic reaction to the residents of the island and nearby major city of Padang, strong shake also felt by the residents of nearby cities of Bengkulu and

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Written by:Gayatri Indah MarliyaniSan Diego State University, USAGadjah Mada University, IndonesiaINTRODUCTIONMerapi is a strato-volcano located in Central Java, Indonesia, about 30 km north of Yogyakarta city which has more than one million inhabitants (Figure 1, Figure 2). It is part of the volcanic front of the Sunda-Banda magmatic arc produced by subduction of the Australian plate under the

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The Indonesian Center for Volcanology has issued a third-degree warning on the possible eruption of the Merapi volcano in densely populated Yogyakarta City, Central Java. The status of Merapi was raised on September 21, 2010 from the second degree 'warning' to the third degree 'expectation'. All activities in the threatened area around the volcano will be banned for safety reasons. The official

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After a dormant period of 400 years, Mount Sinabung in North Sumatra erupts on Sunday, August 29, 2010 at 00.08pm. The ejected materials, seen as thick black smoke, consist of sands, small stones and sulfur gas reach as high as 1,500 meters (about 5,000 feet) and prompting the evacuation of at least 12.000 residents. One people reported died of breathing difficulties. The ash spread to a distance

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A magnitude 5.0 struck Yogyakarta region on Saturday, August 21, 2010 at 06:41:38 PM local time. The epicenter located 6 km southwest of the damaging M 6.2 earthquake of May 26, 2006, onshore at position 8.034°S, 110.380°E (BMG). It is not clear if this events is related to 2006 events but by looking at alignment location of the epicenter, there is a big possibility that this earthquake occurred

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Another devastating landslide has occurred in West Java, following Ciwidey landslide that were happened 18 days before. The landslide occurred at Kampung Ciawi Tali, Cianjur, West Java Province on Thursday, 11 March 2010 at 6.30 pm. Seven people were confirmed dead and four others still buried under the debris and subject for search and rescue. At least 20 houses and school damaged and 100 people

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A magnitude-6.5 earthquake struck the western shore of Indonesia's Sumatra island on Friday, March 05, 2010 at 11:06:57 PM. The epicenter located offshore at 4.032°S, 100.806°E at 22 km depth, about 165 km (100 miles) West of Bengkulu and 345 km (215 miles) South of Padang, Sumatra. This event causing panic but no casualties or damage yet reported. No tsunami potential being issued.Epicenter

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A landslide buried a village in West Java early on Tuesday, 23 February 2010 around 7am. The site located in a tea plantation village of Ciwidey, about 90km south of Bandung, West Java and 150 km southeast of the capital, Jakarta. At least 45 people were killed, 21 people were confirmed died while 24 others still buried under the debris, houses occupied by 35 families working in the tea

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In recent years, an e-mail has been circulating which describes an alternative to the long-established "Drop, Cover, and Hold On" advice. The so-called "triangle of life" and some of the other actions recommended in the e-mail are potentially life threatening, and the credibility of the source of these recommendations has been broadly questioned (http://earthquakecountry.info/dropcoverholdon/).

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These imagery provided by The "Center for Satellite Based Crisis Information" (ZKI). ZKI is a service of DLR's German Remote Sensing Data Center (DFD). Its function is the rapid acquisition, processing and analysis of satellite data and the provision of satellite-based information products on natural and environmental disasters, for humanitarian relief activities, as well as in the context of

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Magnitude 6.6 struck South Sumatra region on Thursday, October 01, 2009 at 08:52:29 AM local time. The epicenter located 270 km southeast of the damaging M 7.6 earthquake of September 30, 2009 offshore Padang at position 2.589°S, 101.546°E. It is not clear at present if these events are related but there is a big possibility that the Padang earthquake triggering the October 1st earthquake.

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A powerful earthquake rocked western Indonesia Wednesday, trapping thousands under collapsed buildings — including two hospitals — and triggering landslides. At least 75 people were killed; the death toll was expected to rise. (Update: The official release on October2, a total of 1100 people were confirmed dead and 421 seriously injured, these numbers are still expected to rise along with the

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A magnitude of 7.0 earthquake killed at least 32 people and forced thousands to evacuate on Indonesia's main island of Java on Wednesday, September 02, 2009 at 02:55:01 PM local time. The death toll was expected to rise . Over 3,586 homes were damaged. The epicenter of the quake was 195km south of Jakarta and 95km south of Bandung city in the position of 7.778°S, 107.328°E with the uncertainty of

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In Indonesia, many people live close to active and dangerous volcanoes. On Java island alone, around 120 million people live in the shadows of more than 30 volcanoes.Al Jazeera's David Hawkins reports.

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A magnitude of 5.9 jolted North Sulawesi on Thursday, July 02, 2009 at 05:10:45 AM local time. There was no immediate report of casualties or material damage. The epicenter was located at a depth of 23 kilometers below sea level, 107 kilometers southeast of Bitung, which lies 50 kilometers to the east of North Sulawesi's capital Manado.Local meteorology and geophysics agency (BMG) said that the

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Indonesian Geological Agency has raised the alert level for Karangateng volcano on May 31, 2009 into its maximum level. It began spewing hot clouds and lava, and volcanic tremor on May 30, 2009. Hundreds of people were evacuated from near the volcano. Total number of vulnerable population approximately 3,000 people.Karangetang Volcano is located in central Sangihe Islands, lies at the northern

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By: Netherlands Organization for Scientific ResearchThe large forest fires that sweep through Indonesia in dry periods are not only the result of severe drought. A team of researchers, including Veni grant winner Guido van der Werf, has analysed the density of smog during forest fires. They have now established that the intensity of the forest fires is directly linked to population density and

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Up to Friday, May 29, 2009, sixty three hot spot were identified in Sumatra island. Most of them were occurred in Riau, Bengkulu, South Sumatra and Jambi province. The authority said that the number had been decreasing, two days before they identify as much as 350 hot spot. The smoke reduce the viewing distance, but haven't reach the limit to affect air traffic.The islands of Sumatra and Borneo

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by: Titania Veda (the Jakarta Globe)After the tsunami hit Aceh, Padang and the rest of West Sumatra were left unscathed, but the news induced great trauma in the people,” said Patra Rina Dewi, executive director of the Tsunami Alert Community (Kogami), a local nongovernmental organization.The Dec. 26, 2004, Indian Ocean tsunami was the worst the world had seen in around 600 years, and Padang’s

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The Indonesian Volcanology Center has raised the alert from level II to Level III on Slamet Mountain in Central Java. The Center has set four levels increasing intensity of volcanic activity with level I for the lowest and level IV for the highest. The 3,432-metre Slamet Mountain strato volcano is the second highest volcano in Java after Mount Semeru. It began to spew lava on Wednesday (22nd

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Full papers in PDF format:Sieh, K., and D. Natawidjaja, 2000, Neotectonics of the Sumatran fault, Indonesia: Journal of Geophysical Research 105, 28,295-28,326.Konca, A.O., Avouac, J-P., Sladen, A., Meltzner, A., Sieh, K., Fang, P., Li, Z.,Galetzka, J., Genrich, J., Chlieh, M., Natawidjaja, D., Bock, Y., F, Partial rupture of a locked patch of the Sumatra megathrust during the 2007 earthquake

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Landslides form some of the worst disasters in Indonesia. Over the past seven years, more than 36 landslides occurred resulting in the deaths or disappearance of 1226 people and millions of US dollars in losses.Most areas susceptible to landslides are densely populated, due to the presence of fertile soil and good water resources which often contribute to slope instability. Despite efforts to

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The 10-meter high Situ Gintung river dam collapsed on Friday, March 27, 2009 morning around 2 am and has inundated around 400 homes of which 250 were damaged or destroyed in Tangerang, Banten, near Jakarta. The police announced that a total of 100 people had been confirmed dead in the incident and 14 citizens of the district were reported missing (updated April 1, 2009).Torrential rains Thursday

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The Indonesian Volcanology Center has raised a maximum alert on the Mount Semeru volcano in East Java, warning of potentially dangerous lava flows.The 3,676-metre (12,060-ft) Semeru is one of the most active volcanoes on Java Island. Geographically, it’s located at the position of 8° 06’ 30’’ Latitude and 112° 55’ Longitude. Its highest point is called Mahameru (+ 3676 meter) which is the highest

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• Hardcover: 288 pages• Publisher: Star Pub Co; 1st edition (January 31, 2008)• Language: English• ISBN-10: 0898633044• ISBN-13: 978-0898633047The book is comprised of twenty-five international scientific papers about the Yogyakarta earthquake. It includes information on the geologic and seismological structure of the Yogyakarta Special Province and the Central Java Province and the effects

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Landslide prone areas in March 2009, in all provinces of Indonesia. Presented both as maps and tables by the Indonesian Government. You can find it here.

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This website was built in response to the limited sources of information available in English concerning natural disasters in Indonesia. It is meant to provide information understandable to the broad international community, especially those interested in disaster response. The website hosted by an Indonesian geologist. The publisher wishes to thank the Visualization Center of San Diego State

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A moment magnitude 7.2 Mw was happen in Kepulauan Talaud, Indonesia on February 12, 2009, local time 01.34, resulting 2 fatalities, 10 heavy injured while other 42 people wounded and over 700 building collapse. More than 5000 citizen were evacuated to avoid the affect of continuous aftershock in magnitude 4 Mw to 6 Mw that are still happening in the region.This earthquake likely occurred as a

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Heavy rains over the past weeks have caused floods and landslides in various parts of Indonesia, causing heavy economic losses.JavaFloodwaters engulfed several villages in Kroya district, Cilacap regency-Central Java, destroying 450 hectares of almost-harvested rice crops. While in East Java floods due to the overflowing of the Bengawan Solo River has submerged 1,730 hectares of rice fields in 61

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Landslide prone area during the rainy season of 2009, in all provinces of Indonesia. Presented both as maps and tables by the Indonesian Government. You can find it in here.

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On Thursday 15th January 2009 Dieng Volcano was raised from level I (normal) to a level II alert (out of a maximum of IV) after two phreatic eruptions on 15th January. The eruptions occurred at Sibanteng Crater at 8:00 and 8:30 am. Volcanic material was ejected 50 m from the crater causing no fatalities since it is located away from the settled area. It was reported that there was no poisonous

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West Papua Province (Indonesian: Papua Barat; formerly West Irian Jaya or Irian Jaya Barat) is located on the western end of the island of New Guinea. It covers the Bird's Head (or Doberai) Peninsula and surrounding islands.With population around 800,000, it becomes the least populous province of Indonesia.At 4 of January 2009, a powerful earthquake hit the area, 4 people died and over 66 people

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Indonesia is located in southeast Asia; it is a huge archipelago extending 5,120 kilometers from east to west and 1,760 kilometers from north to south along the equator. It is comprised of 13,667 islands (some sources say as many as 18,000), with only 6,000 of which are inhabited. There are five main islands (Sumatra, Java, Kalimantan, Sulawesi, and Irian Jaya), two major archipelagos (Nusa

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