Two Earthquakes Hit North Nias; No Tsunami Alert

Jakarta Globe, Basten Gokkon, Jan 27, 2015

A screenshot of the United States Geological Survey website showing the
location of Tuesday morning's earthquakes in Nias Island. (JG Screenshot)

Jakarta. Two earthquakes rattled the island of Nias off the North Sumatra coast on Tuesday morning, but did not trigger a tsunami warning. There were no immediate reports of injuries or damage to property.

The first quake, of magnitude 5.7, struck at 7:53 a.m. on the northeastern tip of the island, sending residents fleeing from their homes.

“The earthquake lasted for about five to seven seconds,” said Faozaro, head of the North Nias Disaster Mitigation Agency (BPBD), as quoted by Tempo.co. “We can ensure that the earthquake won’t cause a tsunami.”

A second quake, of magnitude 4.9, hit just nine minutes later, about four kilometers south of the first one.

The BPBD has deployed officers to North Nias’s 11 subdistricts to survey any damage. “As of now, there have been no reports of injuries or damage to houses,” Faozaro said.

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Indonesia Tsunami Warning Lifted After 7.1 Earthquake

Jakarta Globe, Nov 15, 2014

A screenshot of the USGS website showing the series of earthquakes in
eastern Indonesia on Saturday. (JG Photo)

Jakarta. Indonesian authorities have lifted a tsunami warning after a magnitude-7.1 earthquake hit the east of the country on Saturday morning.

The quake struck at 9:31 a.m. some 156 kilometers northwest of the island of Ternate in the Malukus. Several aftershocks ranging in magnitude from 4.3 to 5.8 were registered as of 1:13 p.m., according to the United States Geological Survey.

The initial quake prompted a tsunami warning from the Meteorology, Climatology and Geophysics Agency (BMKG), but the waves generated were not as high as feared in places such as Jailolo and Tobelo, in the Maluku chain, and in Manado, North Sulawesi.

The BMKG withdrew its tsunami warning at 13:45 p.m. in the affected area, while the National Disaster Mitigation Agency (BNPB) said it would continue to monitor the seismic activity in the region.

“Any time there’s a tsunami warning, the people must evacuate to higher ground,” said Sutopo Purwo Nugroho, a spokesman for the BNPB, adding that in that particular region, there was only a 30-minute window for an evacuation, given the speed at which the tsunami waves moved.

The region, where the Eurasian and Filipino tectonic plates meet, has a history of earthquakes capable of generating tsunamis. The last recorded tsunami was in 1932, when a quake of magnitude 8.3 struck. Before that, a 7.4 quake in 1858 also generated a tsunami.

Residents Around Mt. Kelud Anticipate Eruption as Animals Flee Forest

Jakarta Globe, Dyah Ayu Pitaloka, February 11, 2014

Malang. Residents of the Pandansari village in Malang, East Java, claimed on Tuesday to have seen several animals fleeing the forest on the slopes of Mount Kelud, a supposed sign of increased volcanic activity.

“We received reports from people who claimed to see deer and other animals running out of the forest toward their house,” Sakirman, a former Pandansari village chief, said, adding that the occurrence was significant since the volcano is already on a level-three alert.

Hafi Lufi, head of the Malang Disaster Mitigation Agency (BPBD), said that such an exodus was usually caused by gases rising up from the mountain.

“Smoke may have already been released, so animals have run away from the mountain,” he said. “We’ve prepared masks and evacuation points.”

Pandansari is one of three villages on high alert during a possible eruption of Kelud. The other two are Banturejo and Pagersari.

The Malang BPBD said also that six other villages around Mount Kelud could be affected: Sidodadi village and Ngantru village, both located in Ngantang subdistrict, and the villages of Pondok Agung Bayem, Kasembon and Sukosari located in Kasembon subdistrict.

Despite the level-three warning, the provincial BPBD has yet to evacuate the 32,000 residents possibly in danger.

“We don’t want to make them panic,” Hafi said. “The status has been raised, but the observation results haven’t shown that an evacuation is urgent.

“We’ll evacuate [the area] based on a recommendation made by the Center for Volcanology and Geologic Disaster Mitigation and a report from volunteers [at the volcano].”

Mount Kelud is located on the border of Blitar, Kediri and Malang. It has erupted several times in the past.

In 1919, according to the volcanology center’s website, 5,110 people died after a particularly deadly discharge of Mount Kelud. A 1990 eruption claimed 34 lives, but the volcano’s most recent blast, in 2007, caused no casualties after a successful evacuation plan was carried out.

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Kryon Q&A

Question: Dear Kryon, on the news they've talked of the fact that very few animals have been found dead after the devastating tsunami along the Indian Ocean. Also, they've mentioned that elephants were seen helping victims by pulling them from the water with their trunks. Would you please explain the animals' connection with the earth that would allow them to sense the impending danger of the tsunami? And if the information about the elephants is correct, please explain their behavior in helping the endangered people. Thank you.

Answer: Again, you've explained it within your question. Without intellect as strong as yours, the animals are connected to the energy of the planet. They've also developed increased senses, especially that of hearing. Most of them, through intuition passed down - which you call instinct - knew what to do when they "heard" the sea coming. Remember, hearing is vibration in the air. The approaching swell, even though invisible and not available for your hearing, created a vibration within the earth. It approached at over 500 miles per hour, and disturbed the very crust of the earth as it passed over it with its incredible weight. This is what the animals heard, and tens of thousands of years of instinct automatically said, "Head for the hills."

Elephants have a very developed sense of "belonging to life." They mourn for their own dead, mate for life, remember friends for years, and yes, even recognize Humans in trouble. They're also revered in many religions for this awareness.

Humans don't have these increased and altered senses. They never did. Their evolutionary path was unique, apart from the animals of earth. The first great Human civilization (the Lemurians) had, instead, interdimensional perception, but even that was lost. Now you're on your own to use your intelligence and intellect to create your own safety. It's a trade off, as you can see, between the animals and you.

Our advice for next time? You can spend your resources on technical warning systems if you wish, but think about this: Why not just bond with the animals? They'll let you know about anything coming - volcanoes, earthquakes, tsunamis, tidal waves, and even about Humans in trouble.


Question (2002): Dear Kryon, A friend and I are meditating on the recent shark attacks and feel that it has to do with the planetary changes. We just can’t understand why they have become aggressive. What is the message the sharks are bringing? Why is this happening?

—Thank you,

Maryann

Answer: Indeed there are changes with the environment and also with biology regarding the 12-year grid change. I will first give you what was happening in general: What you are seeing are mammals, amphibians, insects, and even fish that are in areas that are new to them. Every life-form that migrates is effected by magnetics. All life forms that follows certain feeding scenarios and are “following the food” have the potential to be affected. This is due to the changing of the magnetic ley lines of the earth as we have stated before.

The areas where you can see in the ocean most clearly are within those migration patterns closest to the land. Where the ocean interfaces with the land, there are challenges for all these creatures for at least one of their generations. Whales will beach themselves by following old magnetics headings that now “drive” them into peninsula’s and other land areas that were marginally on the edge of their old paths. Birds, amphibians, and insects will be seen to do odd things for awhile.

So these shark fish may be in greater numbers in these coastal areas than in the past, but the increased aggressive behavior was actually something else: There was a tremendous “release” of energy due to the Sept. 11 event. Much like the energy of earthquakes and other earth movement, much of the environment “feels it” coming. We have spoken about how the Sept. 11 event was not a surprise to the earth. [See Lee’s article “Did Kryon give us hints”] So, some of the new actions of these fish were due to an actual energy buildup of coming events... of which you now understand.

If you are paying attention, therefore, you might ask, “Does this mean that Human consciousness issues affect the actual earth?” Yes they do! Finally you may begin to see how global consciousness is tied into the environment, and even to basic physics and reality. They are not separate, and never were. The indigenous knew it, and now the “modern” world is beginning to wonder.

Blessed is the Human Being who understands that what they think, do, and intend, actually drives the reality of the dirt of the planet!

‘Stunning’ Tsunami Record Discovered in Aceh Cave

Jakarta Globe – AFP, December 14, 2013

Scientists said they have discovered a cave Lhonga Leupung, Aceh, that provides
 a ‘stunning’ record of Indian Ocean tsunamis over thousands of years. (AFP
Photo/C.M. Rubin)

Scientists said Friday they have discovered a cave on the Indonesian island of Sumatra that provides a “stunning” record of Indian Ocean tsunamis over thousands of years.

They say layers of tsunami-borne sediments found in the cave in northwest Sumatra suggest the biggest destructive waves do not occur at set intervals — meaning communities in the area should be prepared at all times for a tsunami.

“It’s something that communities need to know,” research team leader Charles Rubin told AFP, adding that the team wanted to “promote safety of coastal communities”.

Professor Rubin and other researchers from a Singapore institute were working with scientists from an Indonesian university when they discovered the cave, south of Banda Aceh, the capital of Aceh province.

A quake-triggered tsunami devastated Aceh and areas across the Indian Ocean in 2004, leaving some 170,000 people dead in the province alone.

Inside the cave the researchers found layers of sandy sediment, which had been washed in by tsunamis thousands of years previously, Rubin said.

The layers, which contained small fossils from the seabed, were well-preserved and separated by droppings deposited by bats in the cave, he added.

“This is a beautiful, stunning record of tsunamis that you just don’t have very often,” Rubin said.

Only huge tsunamis and storm surges can get into the cave, which has a raised entrance — and afterwards the sediment is protected inside from erosion by wind or water.

Rubin said the scientists dated the layers and believe they show that between 2,800 and 3,300 years ago, some four to five tsunamis battered the area.

Before the 2004 tsunami, it had been hundreds of years since such a huge destructive wave had hit Aceh, the scientist said.

But he said the new discovery suggests that tsunamis are not evenly spaced through time, which should provide food for thought for those involved in policy and planning in the region.

“These don’t happen like clockwork, they have variations in time and variations in size,” he said.

Rubin works at the Earth Observatory of Singapore, an institute that forms part of Nanyang Technological University.

Scientists from the institute were working with researchers from Syiah Kuala University in Banda Aceh.

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Hero rescues pets from Fukushima nuclear wasteland

ITN, 5 nov 2013

A man who refused to leave when Japan's Fukushima nuclear plants melted down is now caring for hundreds of abandoned animals in a wasteland. As fears of radiation grew following the meltdowns of March 2011, tens of thousands of people fled their homes, and the area was put into lock-down. Even now, more than two-and-a-half years after the disaster, those who enter must leave again before nightfall. But one man never left.

Keigo Sakamoto, 58, started an animal sanctuary over a decade ago in Naraha, fewer than 12-and-a-half miles from the Fukushima plant. After the disaster, he was ordered to evacuate, which would have meant abandoning some 500 animals including chickens, dogs, rabbits, geese, goats and guinea pigs. Sakamoto refused to leave. The government blocked access roads with concrete blocks and he was trapped inside, cut off from supplies. For months he and his animals ate anything they could find, explaining here that he feeds cat food to his dogs.

Twice a week, on Mondays and Fridays, Sakamoto makes the one-and-a-half-hour supply run to the nearby town of Iwaki. He receives some monetary support and bags of animal feed from his supporters, who send it to a pet shop in town. A supermarket provides him with discarded vegetables. Sakamoto says he is not scared, because he is protecting hundreds of lives, and plans to continue doing what he is doing. Report by Mark Morris.

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Aceh Earthquake Surprises Scientists

Jakarta Globe, April 12, 2012

Soldiers stand along the Indian Ocean coastline following a tsunami warning
 in Somalia’s capital Mogadishu on Wednesday. The powerful 8.6 magnitude
 earthquake and a series of strong aftershocks struck off Indonesia on Wednesday,
 sending people scurrying from buildings as far away as southern India. (Reuters Photo)

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The massive earthquake off Indonesia surprised scientists: Usually this type of jolt isn’t this powerful. The biggest earthquakes tend to occur in subduction zones where one plate of the Earth’s crust dives under another. This grind produced the 2004 magnitude-9.1 Indian Ocean disaster and the magnitude-9 Japan quake last year.

Wednesday’s magnitude-8.6 occurred along a strike-slip fault line similar to California’s San Andreas Fault. Scientists say it’s rare for strike-slip quakes, in which blocks of rocks slide horizontally past each other, to be this large.

“It’s clearly a bit of an odd duck,” said seismologist Susan Hough of the U.S. Geological Survey in Pasadena, Calif.

As one of the world’s most seismically active places, Indonesia is located on the Pacific “Ring of Fire,” an arc of volcanos and fault lines encircling the Pacific Basin. Pressure builds up in the rocks over time and is eventually released in an earthquake.

Wednesday’s quake was followed by a magnitude-8.2 aftershock. Both were strike-slip quakes.

“A week ago, we wouldn’t have thought we could have a strike-slip earthquake of this size. This is very, very large,” said Kevin Furlong, a professor of geosciences at Penn State University.

So large, in fact, that the main shock went into the history books. Record-keeping by the USGS National Earthquake Information Center ranks Wednesday’s shaker as the 11th largest since 1900. It’s probably the largest strike-slip event though there’s debate about whether a similar-sized Tibet quake in 1950 was the same kind.

A preliminary analysis indicates one side of the fault lurched 70 feet past the other — a major reason for the quake’s size. By contrast, during the 1906 magnitude-7.8 San Francisco earthquake along the San Andreas — perhaps the best known strike-slip event — the ground shifted 15 feet.

The Sumatra coast has been rattled by three strong strike-slip quakes since 2004, but Wednesday’s was the largest.

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Tsunami Warning for Sumatra Indonesia After Magnitude 8.5 Earthquake

Jakarta Globe, April 11, 2012

Tsunami warning. (BMKG Graphic) 

       

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Indonesia issued a tsunami warning Wednesday after an earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 8.5 hit waters off westernmost Aceh province.

Said, an official at Indonesia’s Meteorology and Geophysics Agency who goes by only one name, said a tsunami warning has been issued for Aceh, West Sumatra, North Sumatra, Lampung and Bengkulu. The tsunami was expected to reach Aceh at 4:31 p.m.

According to Metro TV, traffic was chaotic Wednesday afternoon in Banda Aceh as people flee coastal areas for higher ground in the east. Power and internet is reportedly down in the provincial capita.

In Padang, hospitals are reportedly evacuating patients from the building.

Thailand issued an evacuation order Wednesday for its Andaman coast, a popular tourist destination, after a massive earthquake off Indonesia triggered a tsunami alert.

Thailand’s National Disaster Warning Center advised people in the area to move to higher places and stay as far away as possible from the sea.

People on Twitter said tremors were felt in Singapore, Thailand, Malaysia and India. High-rise apartments and offices on Malaysia’s west coast shook for at least a minute. In Bangalore, India hundreds of office workers left their buildings, workers there said.

The U.S. Geological Survey said the powerful quake was centered 20 miles (33 kilometers) beneath the ocean floor around 308 miles (495 kilometers) from Aceh’s provincial capital.

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration issued a tsunami warning for the following 27 countries: Indonesia, India, Sri Lanka, Australia, Burma, Thailand, Maldives, United Kingdom, Malaysia, Reunion, Seychelles, Pakistan, Somalia, Oman, Madagascar, Iran, United Arab Emirates, Yemen, Comores, Bangladesh, Tanzania, Mozambique, Kenya, Crozet Islands, Kerguelen Islands, South Africa and Singapore.

Indonesia straddles a series of fault lines that makes the vast island nation prone to volcanic and seismic activity.

A giant 9.1-magnitude quake off the country on Dec. 26, 2004, triggered a tsunami in the Indian Ocean that killed 230,000 people, nearly three quarter of them in Aceh.

JG/ AP/ Reuters/ AFP

Residents of Banda Aceh flee shortly after a powerful

 earthquake hit the western coast of Sumatra in Banda Aceh

on Wednesday. (AFP Photo)

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Strong quake hits off southern Indonesia

The Jakarta Post, Associated Press, Jakarta | Mon, 04/04/2011

A strong earthquake hit off Indonesia's main island of Java Monday, prompting authorities to briefly issue a tsunami warning and sending thousands of residents fleeing their homes in panic.

There were no immediate reports of injuries or damage from the 6.7-magnitude quake, which struck shortly after 3 a.m. Monday (2000 GMT, 4 p.m. EDT).

The U.S. Geological Survey said the temblor was centered 318 kilometers (nearly 200 miles) off southern Java, just 24 kilometers (15 miles) beneath the ocean floor.

Thousands of people in the town of Cilacap poured into the streets and ran to high ground, many gathering in mosques, witnesses told El Shinta radio.

Ninety minutes later, when the threat of a tsunami had passed, they were told to go home.

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10-Centimeter Minor Tsunami Hits Halmahera, North Maluku

Jakarta Globe, Dessy Sagita, March 11, 2011

Estimated tsunami travel time. The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center
in Hawaii issued a tsunami warning for a large swath of the Pacific
including Hawaii, Australia, New Zealand, Mexico and Central and
South America. (AFP Photo)

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A harmless 10-centimeter swell has hit the coast of North Halmahera in North Maluku, an official said.

Fauzi, a geophysicist from the Meteorology, Climatology and Geophysics Agency (BMKG), said the minor tsunami was now headed to Bitung, Manado, in North Sulawesi.

However, he said that people should remain on alert because the danger had not yet passed.

BMKG earlier warned that a tsunami might be heading to Papua, North Maluku and North Sulawesi after the 8.9 magnitude earthquake in northeastern Japan.

There are no reports yet of swells hitting other coastal areas in Indonesia.

Taiwanese authorities said earlier on Friday that minor tsunamis reached the island's coastline without causing any damage.

Waves around 10 centimeters high hit Taiwan's east and northeast coasts in the evening, the central weather bureau said.

The bureau said it did not expect more and bigger waves but will only lift the warning when the Hawaii-based Pacific Tsunami Warning Center does so.

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One In Three Indonesia's 73,000 Villages Prone To Natural Disaster

Bernama, January 04, 2011

JAKARTA, Jan 4 (Bernama) -- One in three of Indonesia's 73,000 villages is prone to natural disasters, Antara news agency quoted National Disaster Management Agency (BNPB) Chief Syamsul Maarif as saying on Tuesday.

"We predict that 184 districts and cities in Indonesia can be hit by an earthquake," he said here on Tuesday at a meeting at the office of the Coordinating Minister for People's Welfare in Jakarta.

While 150 cities are facing the risk of being engulfed by tsunami, 78 eight cities and districts can be impacted by a volcanic eruption, 176 districts are prone to flooding and 154 cities to landslides.

In 2011, he said the extreme weather with the potential of causing floods , flash floods and landslides was predicted to reach its peak in the January-March period.

In order to reduce casualties and material losses due to natural disasters, he said, BNPB had started to map all disaster-prone areas in Indonesia.

The map was needed to support local governments` efforts to draw up maps of the vulnerable areas. These areas must not be used for housing development or construction of public places.

He said BNPB would also call for alertness of government officials and local people.

Up till now, he said, from the total of 497 districts and cities in Indonesia, 306 had established a Regional Disaster Management Agency .

"Our target is to have each region set up its own disaster management agency by 2012," Syamsul said.

For this year, BNPB received Rp795 billion from the National Budget n (APBN) and Rp17 billion from grants to conduct its activities.

-- BERNAMA

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Report of landslides and sinking lands in Indonesia per December 2010:

• 30 December 2010: Central Java. Hill in Purbalingga Collapsed.

• 29 December 2010: Central Java. Landslides in Banyumas, Banjarnegara, and Purbalingga.

• 29 December 2010: Central Java. Cave Maria, Banyu Urip Village of Tuntang, Semarang, collapsed.
• 29 December 2010: Central Java. A Dike of 32 metre long in Bedana Village of Kalibening, Banjarnegara collapsed.
• 29 December 2010: Jakarta. Pengapuran Raya Street, Tambora, West Jakarta was broken. The broken concrete slabs were due to heavy traffic, it was thought.
• 28 December 2010: Central Java. Cliff collapsed (50 m high) onto Main Northern Road(Pantura) from B....
• 28 December 2010: Central Java. Bumiayu-Brebes Ring Road was closed due to partly collapsed bridge (sinkhole underneath).
• 27 December 2010: West Java. The concrete body joining Balubur St. and Pasteur St. on Pasopati Flyover, Bandung, shifted, leaving a 10-cm gap. Rapid sinking has been happening all over Bandung.
• 23 December 2010: East Java. The LAPINDO hot mud dike (11 metres high) burst again on 23 Decembe... (as observed by Indonesian scientists). The water of 50 cm high flooded a nearby village and a 200-m-long road. Some houses sank 2.5 metres deep.
• 22 December 2010: Central Java. Landslides in Brebes Injures Six and Destroys a house (Media Indonesia). Location: Dukuh Kosambi, Jipang Village of Bantarkuwung, Brebes, Central Java.
• 22 December 2010: Bali. Floods and landslides assault Northern Bali.
• 21 December 2010: Sulawesi.
• 20 December 2010: Central Java. Landslides and Sinking Road Assault Pekalongan (Media Indonesia). Heavy Rain caused landslides in Pekalongan hills, destroying twenties houses. Six villages were isolated after the sinking of five road spots of 12 km long.
• 18 December 2010: East Java. Sinking and Rising Land in Madura Island. A land of 100 metres wide and 200 metres long in Tlokoh Village of Kokop, Bangkalan, Madura, suddenly sank 10 metres deep. This bewildered the locals.
• 17 December 2010: Borneo (Kalimantan). A truck sank into Trans-Kalimantan roadside, in Anjir Serapat.
• 14 December 2010: West Java. Mount Pancar cracked, due for big landslides. The landslides would affect the elite real estate of Sentul City (Beverly Block and Cikeruh River). A sinkhole (3 meter wide, 5 m deep) developed 716 meter above sea level (on the mountain).
• 14 December 2010: North Sumatra. Trans-Sumatra road keeps sinking. Bukit Barisan mountain ranges, in Sumatra (with some of its peaks reaching 3000 m high, running from North to South Sumatra) has also been collapsing in four spots.
• 13 December 2010: Jakarta. Petojo VIJ Street Sank 50 km long, 6 m deep (Berita Jakarta). Cracks were then found on 15 houses. The residents have been worried if their houses would sink too. Being vigilant, they've been watching any signs of further sinking. Location: Kali Siantar, Cideng-Gambir, Central Jakarta. A researcher at LIPI (Indonesian State Science Foundation) Otto S.R. Ongkosongo warned that Jakarta was prone to the same disaster as that of Petojo, considering that the same thing happened before that to Bendungan Jago Street in Kemayoran, Central Jakarta. Loss of land elevation has also threatened the progress of MRT (mass rapid transit) project in Jakarta due for completion in 2016.
• 13 December 2010: Bali. Cliff collapsed in Tampaksiring, Gianyar.
• 12 December 2010: North Sumatra. Jamin Ginting Street in Dusun 1 Sugo Village of Pancurbatu, Deliser.... Sept 2010: landslide, again, in Trans-Sumatra road (Location: Panyabungan, Kotanopan).
• 12 December 2010: Nusa Tenggara Barat. Five Hectare Land Sank 50 Meters deep (Media Indonesia). A resident's land in Dusun Corong, Pemepek Village of Pringgarata, Central Lombok, Nusa Tenggara Barat, gradually sank to 50 metres deep. The village chief was taken aback by such a natural phenomenon as there were no rivers in the vicinity.
• 12 December 2010: Bali. Four areas in Bali are Landslide zones.
• 11 Desember 2010: Yogyakarta (Central Java). Pringgodiningratan Street, Sleman Sank 6 Metres deep(Tribunnews.com, Jogja). The street sank 8 metres long. The road was thought to start sinking on 11 Dec. at 3 am. Before sinking, the road developed a hole of only 1 square metres the day before. It was speculated that the land was getting softer after heavy rains for a few days.
• 10 Desember 2010: Yogyakarta (Cenral Java). Sinking Road Created a giant sinkhole in Sleman, Yogyakarta(Media Indonesia). A large gaping hole (diameter: 10 m, depth: 10 m) was formed in Merapi Street, Sleman, Yogyakarta. The sinkhole forced the local goverment office of Sleman to close as the access road was cut off. The initial hole was only as large as an umbrella on Dec. 10, it was said, but at 9 pm on the same day, the hole was getting much wider and deeper.
• 10 Desember 2010: Central Java. Land movement assault Cintamanik Village of Bumijawa, Tegal, destroying 22 houses and 25 hectares of paddy fields in the vicinity.
• 10 December 2010: Central Java. Sinking Road in Sidorejo Village. The road connecting to other villages sank one metres deep.
• 10 December 2010: West Java. Landslide in Karangpucung and Cimanggu, Cilacap, West Java.
• 06 Desember 2010: Central Java . Sinking land destroy 7 houses in Karangpari, Bantarkawung, Brebes(Suara Merdeka). The land sank 20-50 cm deep and threatened hundreds other houses. The residents (most are farmers) are still living in such houses with fear due to poverty.
• 08 Desember 2010: West Sulawesi. High tides scoured coastal areas in Tappalang, Mamuju.
• 06 Desember 2010: East Java .Trawas Hill collapsed, cutting off road Trawas-Ngoro, Kedung, Mojokerto, East Java.
• 04 Desember 2010: West Java. Heavy traffic jam due to sinking Pajajaran Street in Bandung. The sinkhole (again, in the area) was 8 metres deep and 6 metres in diameter.
• 01 December 2010: West Java. Road to northern Garut was cut off due to sinking road in Kampung Kadulempeng, Wangunjaya Village of Banjarwangi. The road (5 metres long, 2 metres wide) sank 2.5 metres deep.