Indonesia has been named as the most threatened countries affected by the tsunami in the world

Indonesia has been named as the most threatened countries affected by the tsunami in the world when viewed from the affected population.
Head of Data and Information National Disaster Management Agency (BNPB), Sutopo Purwo Nugroho said Indonesia has various types of disasters such as earthquakes, tsunamis, volcanic eruptions, floods, landslides, drought, and wildfires.
Data from the United Nations International Strategy for Disaster Reduction (UN-ISDR) mentions, for the tsunami disaster, Indonesia ranked first of 265 countries in the world, with 5,402,239 people who will be affected.
"For landslides, Indonesia is also the first ranking of 162 countries with 197,372 people affected," said Sutopo, Wednesday, August 10, 2011.
For earthquakes, Sutopo adds, Indonesia is ranked third of 153 countries with 11,056,806 people affected. "For floods, Indonesia ranked sixth of 162 countries with 1,101,507 people affected," he said.
Not only the impact on humans, also raises the economic impact of disasters. For example, when the tsunami hit Aceh in 2004. At that time, damage and economic losses due to disasters is estimated at Rp39 trillion.
Indonesia also had to go back to bear the economic losses after disasters hit the region. Note BNPB found, the earthquake in Yogyakarta and Central Java in 2006 causing losses and damages valued at Rp27 trillion, the Jakarta flood in 2007 (Rp 4, 8 trillion), West Sumatra earthquake in 2009 (Rp21, 6 trillion), and the eruption of Merapi in 2010 in outside of the impact of cold lava Rp3, 56 trillion.
"Compare this with the need to build a bridge Suramadu around Rp 4, 5 trillion and the need for phase II JORR along 122.6 kilometers Rp5 trillion. That is the impact of such disasters reduce the pace of development," said Sutopo.
In fact, said Sutopo, the government's ability to allocate disaster reserve fund each year only around Rp 4 trillion. Moreover the funds are used to cope with all the big and small disasters that happen all over Indonesia.
Java-Sumatra
Axis of the disaster in Indonesia is spread almost all over except the large island of Borneo. According to the secretariat of the UN International Strategy for Disaster Reduction, the two islands of which face more natural disasters than any place in the world of Java and Sumatra. Two island subscription droughts, floods, earthquakes, landslides, volcanoes, and tsunamis.
Disaster of the most famous is the 2004 earthquake and tsunami that killed at least 227,898 people - a giant waves trapped following a devastating earthquake 9.1 on the Richter scale. The impact to the number of countries. However, most casualties fell in Indonesia that is more than 130 thousand people.
Not to mention the small disasters that continue to come and create suffering. Between 1907 and 2004 - before the tsunami - the drought has killed 9329 people of Indonesia. Volcanic eruptions killed 17 945 people at the same time period, and an earthquake killed 21,856 people.
In Sumatra, following a devastating earthquake the tsunami threat is waiting. Experts have warned, the west coast of Sumatra rocked by earthquake-prone with strength up to 8.9 on the Richter scale - which could trigger a giant wave, tsunami.
Disaster Field Staff President, Andi Arief, say, the odds of large earthquakes, especially in the waters of Siberut, Mentawai Mentawai bigger and bigger after major earthquake rocked on October 25, 2010.
Earthquake experts Indonesian Institute of Sciences (LIPI), Danny Hilman said, there is potential for large earthquakes that have not been out in the Mentawai segment. This segment of the energy saving potential of an earthquake with a 30-fold greater than the earthquake in Padang, last year. Large earthquake in the (subduction zone) following the Mentawai recurring annual cycle of 200.
The results showed, a period of major earthquakes in the region occurred recently in 1797 and 1833. While the 2007 earthquake in the Mentawai region releases only 1 / 3 the amount of energy accumulated tectonic stress.
According to experts from the Earth Observatory of Singapore who has long studied the Mentawai region with LIPI, Professor Kerry Edward Sieh, from the great Mentawai earthquake data in 1797 and 1833 they received, it turns out almost the entire megathrust (fault ride) between South Pagai Island to Island Stone has never been broken since year 1797 or even a hundred years earlier.
"This causes the slip (shift) as little as 8 to 12 feet could occur on the megathrust," said Sieh told VIVAnews.com via email last year.
GPS data they have, Sieh added, implying that the occurrence of megathrust fault on the ocean side of the megathrust that happens, at the bottom, and on the inner side of the island (the side toward the West Sumatra).
The predicted earthquake caused a tsunami that swept the region on the West Coast of Sumatra radius of 5 kilometers (km) of shoreline. Padang, a city with a population of nearly 1 million people, is one of the threatened city affected by the tsunami. (Eh)