Uproar Over Tsunami Threats

Actually there is nothing new in the information of a potential tsunami in the Sunda Strait that could reach a height of 57 meters.

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After last week’s news on the 8.0 megathrust earthquake threat in Jakarta, news about the threat of potential tsunamis to the south of West Java and the Sunda Strait also went viral and received a wide variety of opinions, responses and refutations.

A discourse that focused only on the potential issue of dangerous threats was taken by the public as a disturbing polemic because it was not accompanied by measurable and applicable solutions for mitigation. Moreover, the current issue has developed in a far distance direction from the realm of science, which was the original entrance to the discussion. If such a pattern in disaster discourses continues, it is feared that the long-term goals to improve the public\'s real resilience will not be achieved, because such public discourse stop merely at the mere mention of the threat of danger and are always devoid of comprehensive information on what to do next.