Disaster. The word is increasingly familiar in our ears. In fact, more and more people in this country have experienced it first hand. Data and facts show this.

Floods, earthquakes, water crises, deadly accidents, and fires plague rapidly growing cities in Indonesia. However, mitigation in these urban areas is still minimal.

Shallow earthquakes struck Jayapura up until Friday 7 p.m. Eastern Time Zone (WIT), with a total of five earthquakes hitting Papua’s capital city in the morning, afternoon and evening up until 5:54 p.m. WIT.

Successive earthquakes in Turkey that killed thousands of people have sounded the alarm for other residential areas that lie on active fault lines, including in Indonesia.

The Cianjur earthquake was detectable by the BMKG within ten minutes after the jolts through a shake map modeling, which proved to be accurate in informing the spread of damaged areas.

By realizing all the mitigation measures, we will be able to minimize the impacts of disasters so we can live safely and comfortably, even in disaster-prone areas.

Eight people had died and about 3,000 houses were damaged due to the 6.1-magnitude earthquake, which struck in the waters south of Malang on Saturday (10/4/2021).

On Friday there were two earthquakes, namely in South Buton, Southeast Sulawesi; and Aceh Singkil, Aceh province. Two shallow earthquakes centered tens of kilometers from land amplified risk signals in coastal areas.