Headline:Quake strikes Indonesia, tsunami alerts issued
Disaster: Earthquake/Tsunami ( Lithosphere/Hydropshere)
Date:Sep 12, 2007 11:59 PM
Summary:
An earthquake of 7.8 magnitude struck Indonesia, Thursday September 12th. The quake caused many buildings to collapse and tsunami alerts to be released for the area. It occurred on the heels of another quake that struck the day before in south Asia, once again collapsing buildings and injuring dozens in Indonesia. Even though the centers of both quakes are located closely together, scientists believe that they are two separate quakes. Indonesia issued, then cancelled, then reissued a tsunami alert for the area. After Wednesday’s 8.4 magnitude quake many people fled their homes and went inland, fearing another repeat of the tsunami that struck the area in 2004. Authorities in different surrounding nations warned all of their citizens of the Tsunami alert. Only a small tsunami, of 3 feet, struck Padang after the quake. Due to telephone lies and electricity going out and being unusable across a large portion of Indonesia, making it very difficult to receive accurate information about how many citizens are injured or dead. Indonesia is prone to seismic activity due to its location on the “Ring of Fire.”
Response:
These people can not seem to catch a break. They live through one of them most terrible natural disasters to date, only to be struck by simultaneous earthquakes a couple of years later. To have one earthquake is bad enough, but having two, both of equally destructive force, is just unbelievable. At least the governments responded efficiently. To be issuing tsunami alerts in places as far away as Kenya and Tanzania, is pretty darn impressive. The one that I thought to be the most up to date technology wise was the National Disaster Warning centre in Thailand sending txt messages to hundred’s of officials in different provinces. I personally think that is really smart of them to do, seeing as how that is one of the most used ways of communication in this day and age. Obviously, citizens and officials have learned what they should do when a disaster like this occurs. I do not mean to imply that there is some text book way to deal with the horror of a situation like this, I just mean that they reacted well given the present circumstances and we all could learn from there experiences.
These people can not seem to catch a break. They live through one of them most terrible natural disasters to date, only to be struck by simultaneous earthquakes a couple of years later. To have one earthquake is bad enough, but having two, both of equally destructive force, is just unbelievable. At least the governments responded efficiently. To be issuing tsunami alerts in places as far away as Kenya and Tanzania, is pretty darn impressive. The one that I thought to be the most up to date technology wise was the National Disaster Warning centre in Thailand sending txt messages to hundred’s of officials in different provinces. I personally think that is really smart of them to do, seeing as how that is one of the most used ways of communication in this day and age. Obviously, citizens and officials have learned what they should do when a disaster like this occurs. I do not mean to imply that there is some text book way to deal with the horror of a situation like this, I just mean that they reacted well given the present circumstances and we all could learn from there experiences.
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