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Displaying 1604 of about 1604 resultsBy Tim Pilgrim
September’s deadly Indonesian tsunami, which killed almost 2000 people, was probably caused by a huge submarine landslide off Sulawesi Island’s west coast, a new study shows.
Until now, scientists have been left puzzled by how an earthquake of just 7.5 magnitude – not significant enough to trigger Indonesia’s tsunami early-warning…
By Tim Shepherd, Max Eagles, Agata Fortuna, and Vanessa Hazel
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After the 2013 flood, then Governor of Jakarta, Joko “Jokowi” Widodo, launched the National Capital Integrated Coastal Development (NCICD), an ambitious and dynamic project promising to protect the city from rising sea levels and severe flooding.
Since the announcement,…
By Lindsay Schoenbohm, Associate Professor, University of Toronto
You feel a jolt. Was that … no, it couldn’t be. Wait, it is an earthquake.
Now the whole house is shaking. What do you do?
The answer depends less on the magnitude of the earthquake than you’d think. What matters more is what country you live in and how close you ar…
By Stanley Widianto
As the 2004 Indonesian tsunami bore down on the island of Simeulue , near West Aceh, the cries of “Smong! Smong!,” the local word for a tidal wave, rang from the coastline to the hills as soon as the shaking that preceded the disaster had finished. As they heard it, the islanders, mostly from the Nias people, began heading to t…
By Gavin Brent Sullivan, Reader in Identity and Resilience in Communities and Organisations, Coventry University; and Saut Sagala, Assistant Professor, School of Architecture, Planning and Policy Development, Institut Teknologi Bandung
Social media use is widespread in Indonesia, so people filming everyday scenes can sometimes inadvertently captur…
By Robert Muir-Wood
It turns out the biggest killer in the Palu earthquake on the island of Sulawesi, Indonesia, may not have been the tsunami after all — but liquefaction. Two thousand victims of the earthquake and tsunami are confirmed but 5,000 people remain missing, many of them presumed swallowed up in extraordinary ground defo…
October 13th is the International Day for Disaster Reduction. A good occasion to share some of Cordaid’s efforts to reduce disaster risks in Kenya, Sierra Leone and Indonesia. And to advocate for better resilience of marginalized communities against disasters.
Worldwide the cost of natural disasters has risen significantly since 2000. And climate…
By David Nash
This week is the EU’s Green Week, which will focus on building sustainable cities in the face of climate change. To mark this, David Nash, head of the Zurich Z Foundation, focuses on the special challenges that affect how people in cities are coping.
Urban growth
Human beings are social animals and tend to congregate together.…
ESA and the Asian Development Bank have joined forces to help the Indonesian government use satellite information to guide the redevelopment following the earthquake and tsunami that devastated the provincial capital of Palu and surroundings last year.
On 28 September 2018, the Indonesian island of Sulawesi was struck by a 7.5 magnitude earthquake. Th…
By Elena Y. Chesheva, Tomás Herrero Diez, María José Sala Pelufo, and Jian Vun
The Palu IV Bridge, commonly known as the Yellow Ponulele Bridge, was the first steel arch bridge in Indonesia and connected East and West Palu, presenting spectacular views of the blue sea with the Sulawesi mountains in the background. It had become a symbol of cohesion for…
As an active State party to the UNESCO 1972 World Heritage Convention, and 2003 Convention for the Safeguarding of Intangible Cultural Heritage (ICH), the Government of Indonesia maintains a list of registered national monuments and a national inventory of intangible cultural heritage. However, such national heritage is not the obvious scope of disaster…
The Center for Excellence in Disaster Management and Humanitarian Assistance (USA), produces country and regional reference books to provide a commonly available baseline of information regarding disaster management environments. This Disaster Management Reference Handbook Series is designed to provide decision makers, planners and responders a basic un…
This article explores how the risk of flooding is affected by Indonesian politics and policies, how the successful mitigation of extreme weather events depends on the local political ecosystem, and how digital media can be leveraged to influence political commitment to mitigate the consequences of climate-related hazards.Key lessons from the publication…
This second edition of Ready for the Dry Years reveals that the severity of two drought events during 2015-2016 and 2018-2020 exceeds anything recorded in the past two decades, since the major El Niño of 1997-1998. Evidence presented in the Report shows that this could be set to continue as the climate warms. The report expands the geographical coverage…