Merapi Disaster

Eruption of Mount Merapi on Tuesday, October 26th 2010 at 05:02 pm at least 3 times the eruption occurred and accompanied by the release of 1,5 meters high haet clouds that lead to Kaliadem. About 28 people died and including Mbah Maridjan as a caretaker of Mount Merapi.
The biggest eruption occurred on Friday November 5th 2010 at 01:00 am. The victim died greater if compared with the first major eruption. Most of the victims killed are from Sleman Yogyakarta.
They are difficult to be identified because their body burned and then they were buried en masse in Seyegan Sleman Yogyakarta. All of survivors were evacuated in the Maguwoharjo stadium, and posts located in the safe zone more than 2,5 kilometers from Mount Merapi. Safe zone began narrowed at the end of November 2010, so that refugees can back to them house.
Although now the Mount Merapi is not spewing hot clouds again, but the cold lava continues to threaten the people who living around rivers that disgorge from Merapi.
Losses caused by the eruption of Mount Merapi very much, but the other hand there aer volunteers who assist sincerely.

natural disaster (earthquake)

Earthquake

Earthquake is vibration that occurs at the surface of the earth. Earthquakes caused by plate movements of the earth or the earth’s crust. The types of earthquakes are volcanic earthquake and tectonic earthquake. The volcanic earthquake due to the activation of magma before the volcano erupted. And the tectonic earthquake caused by activity shifting tectonic plates suddenly.

The earthquake that occurred in Yogyakarta twenty-seventh May 2006 at 5.55 am for approximately 57 seconds is a tectonic earthquake, with a strength of 5,9 SR. Meteorology and geophysics agency or BMG determine the epicenter located at depth of 11,3 km.

In general the position of quake in the Indian ocean around south-southwest of Yogyakarta. Although the earthquake hypocenter was at sea but didn’t cause tsunami. Four districts in Yogyakarta province (Sleman, Bantul, Kulon Progo, and Gunung Kidul) and the Central Java (Magelang, Boyolali, Klaten, Purworejo) and cities in East Java province have been affected by the earthquake.

The earthquake resulted in many homes and office buildings that collapsed. Installation of electricity and communications to be damaged. Over 500 people was dead, over 15.000 injured, while some 200.000 to 600.000 people were displaced.