Based on the 2010-2014 disaster map drawn up National Disaster Management Agency (BNPB) and related agencies, there were 150 cities and districts throughout Indonesia are potentially hit by the tsunami.
Director for Disaster Reduction said BNPB Sutopo Nugrho Purwo, towns and districts are scattered along the west coast, covers 21 areas, namely: Nanggroe Aceh Darussalam, North Sumatera, West Sumatera, Bengkulu, Lampung, Banten, South Central Java, East Java Section South, Bali, West Nusa Tenggara, East Nusa Tenggara, North Sulawesi, Central Sulawesi, South Sulawesi, North Maluku, South Moluccas, Biak-Yapen, Balikpapan, sekurau, Palu, Talaud, Kendari
The tsunami also potentially occur in the islands of Halmahera, North Sulawesi, South Sulawesi, and Papua to the north.
Because the impact of the tsunami earthquake, Director of Disaster Risk Reduction BNPB Sutopo actually confirms those areas have a high potential for earthquakes. "Generally, the tsunami took place when passing from 6.5 quake on the Richter scale and depth of less than 20 kilometers,"
Besides besieged three tectonic plates of the world, Indonesia is also a path of The Pasicif Ring of Fire (Pacific Ring of Fire), which is a series of lines active volcano in the world. Pacific Ring of Fire extends between the Pacific plate subduction and separation of the Indo-Australian Plate, the Eurasian plate, North American plate and the Nazca plate is colliding with the South American plate. He stretches from the west coast of South America, continue to the west coast of North America, circular to Canada, Kamsatschka peninsula, Japan, Indonesia, New Zealand and South Pacific islands. Indonesia has volcanoes, amounting to approximately 240 pieces, in which nearly 70 of whom are still active. Zone seismicity and active volcanoes Circum-Pacific region is very famous, because every great earthquake or a devastating tsunami in the region, certainly cost the lives of so many human lives.
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