Senin, 24 November 2008

Disaster


NATURAL DISASTER TOLL REACHES AT LEAST 60
At leas 60 people have been killed and 70 other severely injured following a series of natural disasters that struck the country in the past two months, an official has said.
The natural disasters include the landslide in the central java regency of purworejo, the devasting eartquake in the Papua regency of Nabire and the West Sumatra mayoralty of Padang , and the fatal storm in the Lombok Strait.
Indonesia, with its high of volcanic activity, is prone to earthquakes on all major islands but Kalimantan.
Indonesia is the meeting point of the Australian, Eurasian an the Pacific lithosphera.

Quake - Prone Areas

Sumatera Tarutung, Nort Sumatera, Padang, West Sumatera, Bengkulu, Lampung.
Java Throughout Java, espesially Java.
Nusa Tenggara Lombok
Sulawesi Palu, Central Sulawesi
Papua All part of Papua

(simplified from The Jakarta Post)

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