Scientists warned, after Haiti earthquake and tsunami will hit RI powerful. The group of scientists announced that the warning in Nature Geoscience journal. Then what scientists said Indonesia? The threat of an earthquake that would come from a pressure that goes nonstop for more than two centuries in the Sunda shelf. Area is one of the earthquake zone of the most damaging. Part of the threatened Mentawai Islands openly written in the article.
The threat of a devastating earthquake with a strength of more than SR 8.5 followed by a tsunami could happen in the Mentawai fault. There is the possibility that the potential for disaster victims can swallow more than the scale of the Indian ocean tsunami in 2004.
It did not provide exactly when the earthquake duration. But specifically warn the city of Padang, which is in high-risk areas.
The author of this research led by Professor John McCloskey of the Environmental Sciences Research Institute University of Ulster Northern Ireland. The team suggests that the threat of immediate mitigation actions need to remember a very high potential.
On December 26, 2004 disaster when the 9.3-scale earthquake richter scale rocked Indonesia, more than 220 thousand people lost their lives. The earthquake took place on the north side of the Sunda shelf, cracked plate boundary where the Australian crashed into the earth's crust beneath the Eurasian plate.
In aret 2005, McCloskey warned that there would be greater pressure earthquake joined the fault to the south. He announced there was a wave motion with a capacity of 8.5 caused a dangerous tsunami.
McCloskey prove the truth of his words. On March 28, 2005, an earthquake of 8.6 rocked the island of Simeulue SR, produces three-meter-high tsunami.
Writing in the journal Nature Geoscience, the team describes the calculation of the vulnerable parts of the Mentawai, after a 7.6 earthquake rocked the Padang SR on September 30, 2009.
Singapore scientists incorporated in the Earth Observatory also predicts the potential for an earthquake measuring 8.6 on the Mentawai Islands SR or rather under Siberut Island. The predicted earthquake occurs in the next 10 years, can produce a large tsunami.
Scientists propose the government of Indonesia and the international community supported non-governmental organizations (NGOs) have made efforts to ensure prevention. The authorities are urged to prepare measures for the earthquake will happen again in the next period.
Scientific Services Deputy LIPI January Sopaheluwakan said although there is potential for earthquake and tsunami on the west coast of Sumatra, but communities need not worry.
"The geologist in Indonesia has been known since the beginning and had to coordinate with local governments in Sumatra to cope with it," he said.
He added LIPI, BMKG and local governments have prepared everything right tools, infrastructure, funds and time. Areas with great potential, has been handled mainly west coast of West Sumatra and Bengkulu.
January Sopaheluwakan western scientists say happy looking sensation. And scientists in Indonesia have known the potential for a large earthquake and tsunami that constantly threaten our country.
"But no need to scare to frighten the public, a scientist that was supposed to protect and provide a sense of calm to the community," said Sopaheluwakan January.
"Western scientists do not know when it occurred anyway, only the symptoms and the threat of point location, the technology also has Indonesia. We've been preparing all the impact if it really happened. So just be quiet community, "he added.
: inilah.com
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