Kamis, 30 September 2010

Habis Papua Timbul Gempa di Seluruh Dunia

Habis Papua Timbul Gempa di Seluruh Dunia
Gempa Kaimana berkekuatan 7,4 SR mengakibatkan pergerakan seismik seluruh dunia.
KAMIS, 30 SEPTEMBER 2010, 20:54 WIB
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VIVAnews - Gempa berkekuatan 7,4 skala richter (SR) di Kaimana, Papua Barat, Kamis 30 September dinihari memiliki imbas sangat besar.

Kesimpulan tim ahli dan tim Staf Khusus Presiden bidang Bantuan Sosial dan Bencana, telah terjadi peningkatan seismik di seluruh dunia yang sangat besar dan mendadak setelah gempa 7,4 SR di Kaimana.

"Peningkatan seismik di seluruh dunia ini terjadi selama 3 jam sejak gempa Kaimana," kata Staf Khusus Presiden bidang Bantuan Sosial dan Bencana Alam, Andi Arief dalam rilisnya yang diterima VIVAnews, Kamis 30 September 2010.

Dijelaskan Andi, setelah terjadi gempa Kaimana, terjadi gempa susulan secara terus menerus dan merembet ke seluruh dunia. Peningkatan seismik ini untuk wilayah yang semakin dekat dengan epicenter Kaimana, waktu peningakatan seismik makin cepat. Sementara untuk wilayah yang semakin jauh dengan epicenter Kaimana, waktu terjadinya peningkatan seismik makin lambat.

"Peningkatan seismik makin cepat lagi di wilayah yang makin kuat hubungan lempeng dengan lempeng epicenter Kaimana," kata Andi.

Andi menjelaskan, gempa yang terjadi di Kaimana berimbas yang sangat kuat dengan gempa di wilayah dunia lainnya. Sebab, satu lempeng bergerak atau bergeser maka lempeng lainnya juga ikut bergeser atau bergerak.

Semakin lambat terjadinya peningkatan seismik secara mendadak dan besar maka diperlukan waktu rambat lebih lama untuk menggeser lempeng ke lempeng yg bersebelahan. "Pergerakan rantai gempa ini seperti efek domino gempa," katanya. (sj)

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Papua Gempa, Warga Panik Ada Tsunami

Papua Gempa, Warga Panik Ada Tsunami

Papua Gempa, Warga Panik Ada Tsunami

VIVAnews - Kabupaten Kaimana Papua Barat di guncang gempa berkekuatan 7,4 SR dinihari tadi, 30 September 2010. Warga pun panik. Sebagian lari menuju perbukitan karena adanya isu tsunami. Masih was-was, warga memilih tidak beraktivitas

Kapolres Kaimana AKBP Antonius Wantri Julianto mengatakan warga yang panik berlarian menyelamatkan diri menuju daerah pegunungan. ''Beberapa saat setelah gempa terjadi, warga berhamburan keluar rumah, lalu menyusul adanya isu akan terjadi tsunami, mereka kemudian lari menuju tempat yang lebih tinggi. Namun itu cuma sebentar. Sebagian warga sudah kembali ke rumah masing-masing."

Menurutnya, meski pusat gempa berada 141 kilometer di arah tenggara Kota Kaimana, tapi guncangannya sangat keras. "Memang hanya sebentar.

Tapi guncangannya luar biasa, saya saja sempat kaget," katanya.

Mengenai kerusakan, kata Kapolres, belum ditemukan. Menurutnya aktivitas warga juga sudah berjalan normal kembali, beberapa jam setelah gempa.

Seorang warga bernama Risdo S. menuturkan dia panik karena mendengar ada isu tsunami. "Saya saat itu bersama keluarga sedang tidur nyenyak, tiba-tiba rumah terasa bergoyang. Lalu kami keluar rumah. Ternyata warga

lain juga sudah berhamburan keluar."

Bahkan, ada juga warga yang langsung diangkut truk menuju perbukitan.

"Mereka hanya membawa bekal seadanya. Dan truk sempat beberapa kali bolak balik mengangkut," katanya.

Menurut Risdo mereka panik mendengar isu tsunami, karena juga melihat air laut surut, tidak seperti biasanya. ''Kami belum pernah melihat air laut surut sampai kering sekali begitu. Ini juga yang membuat kepanikan."

Risdo mengungkapkan saat ini sebagian kantor memilih tidak beraktivitas, karena warga masih was-was. Sekolah pun sepi, orang tua khawatir sehingga memilih tidak mengizinkan anak mereka bersekolah. ''Kami masih kuatir jangan-jangan isu tsunami itu benar." (Laporan: Banjir Ambarita, Papua)

http://id.news.yahoo.com/viva/20100929/tpl-papua-gempa-warga-panik-ada-tsunami-fa55e98.html

Usai Gempa 7,4 SR, Papua Guncang Tiga Kali

Usai Gempa 7,4 SR, Papua Guncang Tiga Kali

Usai Gempa 7,4 SR, Papua Guncang Tiga Kali

VIVAnews - Gempa berkekuatan besar, 7,4 Skala Richter, mengguncang Papua Barat dini hari tadi. Menurut data Badan Meteorologi Klimatologi dan Geofisika (BMKG), gempa terjadi sekitar pukul 00.10 WIB, Kamis, 30 September 2010, dan diketahui berada pada koordinat 4.94 Lintang Selatan dan 133.90 Bujur Timur. Pusatnya di kedalaman 25 kilometer, 141 kilometer arah tenggara Kaimana, Papua Barat.

Hingga kini belum ada laporan kerusakan, korban jiwa ataupun luka-luka.

Setelah itu terjadi tiga gempa susulan. Yang pertama terjadi pukul 00.58 WIB pada koordinat 4.66 Lintang Selatan dan 134.18 Bujur Timur. Kekuatannya 5,3 SR di kedalaman 10 kilometar, 119 kilometer Tenggara Kaimana, Papua Barat.

Gempa susulan kedua terjadi pukul 01.01 WIB pada koordinat 4.48 Lintang Selatan dan 133.86 Bujur Timur. Yang ini berkekuatan 5,2 SR di kedalaman 108 kilometar, dan terjadi 90 kilometer Tenggara Kaimana, Papua Barat.

Yang ketiga terjadi pukul 04.03 WIB pada koordinat 4.83 Lintang Selatan dan 133.74 Bujur Timur. Berkekuatan 5,2 SR, pusat gempa berada di kedalaman 10 kilometar di arah 128 kilometer Tenggara Kaimana, Papua Barat. (kd)

http://id.news.yahoo.com/viva/20100929/tpl-usai-gempa-7-4-sr-papua-guncang-tiga-fa55e98.html

2 known dead, 12 missing after storm soaks Jamaica

2 known dead, 12 missing after storm soaks Jamaica

AP/Collin Reid

KINGSTON, Jamaica – Tropical Storm Nicole caused flooding and mudslides across Jamaica on Wednesday, leaving two confirmed dead and at least 12 more missing, even as the drenching system moved north and dissipated over the Florida straits.

The outer bands of the storm hammered Jamaica, toppling bridges and knocking out power to thousands. Many streets were filled with gushing brown torrents of water, prompting Prime Minister Bruce Golding to urge people to stay indoors.

Floodwaters battered squatter communities perched uneasily on the slopes of gullies that crisscross the sprawling capital of Kingston. One slide toppled a house and killed a 14-year-old boy, known to his neighbors as Buju, who was found in a pool of muddy water. The rest of his family — including four sisters, the youngest just 3-years-old — had not been found by Wednesday evening.

"He was a fun boy. He loved to sing, he loved to play football. It's not right, the whole family lost," said Munchie Fuller, a 23-year-old neighbor who watched terrified as a chunk of her own concrete house in Sandy Gully was swept into the raging waters before dawn.

Another resident, Lyndon Bennett, said the people in the shantytown who live along the gully are warned repeatedly to move for their own safety but most refuse to relocate.

"There's not a proper foundation there, the gully is just stone and dirt. People are told not to live there, but when you've got no other options you've just got to make ends meet. It's a real tragedy," said Bennett, who stood behind yellow police tape with about 60 onlookers.

The storm, which had sustained winds of 40 mph (65 kph) earlier in the day, broke apart over the Atlantic, though the U.S. National Hurricane Center in Miami warned that there were still large areas of heavy rain.

Jamaican Information Minister Daryl Vaz said two people were confirmed dead but warned that the toll could be higher from the flash floods and mudslides. He said 12 people were missing.

Emergency shelters were opened and schools closed across the island. Major hospitals were treating only emergency cases. Officials said about 30 percent of the power utility's customers were without power. Some bridges collapsed in the rushing water.

"All in all, there has been a lot of damage done to infrastructure," Vaz said. "It's a serious blow to the country."

In a rural area of St. Elizabeth parish, people told government officials that two farmers in the town of Flagaman were washed away by murky floodwaters and presumed dead. Another man was reportedly swept away while trying to cross rushing Hope River in Kingston.

Floods flattened fields of bananas, scallions and sweet pepper as the storm's outer edges raked the island.

At least three rural towns in St. Thomas parish were isolated due to landslides and three rivers overflowing their banks. Residential areas of the north coast city of Montego Bay were under water, but tourist resorts reported few problems other than minor flooding.

Many Jamaicans were taken by surprise by the ferocity of the rain early Wednesday and the extent of the damage, most of which occurred while the tropical system was classified as a depression.

"It was like rain, rain, then all of a sudden like a big hurricane. I woke up in the middle of the night and it sounded like a waterfall roaring loud," said Kingston resident Tiffany Reid, 14. "I didn't sleep at all after that."

Police in Westmoreland parish's capital of Savanna-la-Mar said the community was hit by a waterspout overnight that ripped the roofs off a couple of buildings and sent four people to a local hospital with scrapes. Residents also reported a possible tornado in Manchester early Wednesday.

Over the last three days, eight inches (20 centimeters) of rain have fallen on the western part of the island and more than seven inches (17.5 centimeters) on the southeast region that includes the sprawling capital of Kingston, said Romayne Robinson, duty forecaster at the Jamaica Meteorological Service.

The storm also soaked Cuba but no deaths were reported.

In Cuba, state-controlled television showed images of rain flooding roads and highways, especially around the eastern city of Santiago, but there were no reports of major damage. Far to the west in Havana, it wasn't even raining and there was no flooding.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/tropical_weather

Mexico: Landslide in another town kills 16 people

Mexico: Landslide in another town kills 16 people


People carry the body of a landslide victim as another body lies in the bed of a home that collapsed in Santa Maria de Tlahuitoltepec in Oaxaca state,AP – People carry the body of a landslide victim as another body lies in the bed of a home that collapsed …

OAXACA, Mexico – Searchers recovered the bodies of two teenage sisters Wednesday during the hunt for 11 people missing after a huge hillside collapsed on a town in Mexico's rain-soaked southern state of Oaxaca, while a landslide in a neighboring state killed 16 people.

The government delivered blankets and other supplies to survivors and other who fled their unstable homes for fear of more mudslides in Santa Maria de Tlahuitoltepec. Many sheltered under makeshift tents on the hills.

The landslide early Tuesday caused nationwide alarm after local authorities initially said hundreds could be dead in the remote town, which had been blocked off by slides and a washed-out bridge.

But hours later, when rescue workers finally reached the community, only 11 people were missing and none confirmed dead.

Heavy rains are beleaguering much of Mexico's south. In neighboringChiapas state, federal officials said 16 people were killed and 13 injured Wednesday by a landslide in the municipality of Amatan.

"Unfortunately there has been a new landslide in Amatan, Chiapas. We are mobilizing aid to help," President Felipe Calderon said by Twitter in delivering the first report of 12 dead.

Hours later, the chief of the federal Civil Protection emergency response agency, Laura Gurza, said in an interview with the Televisa network that a total of 16 bodies had been recovered. She also said three people were missing after a landslide in a nearby town.

"There are fears of more landslides in Chiapas, Oaxaca and the mountainous zone in this strip of territory in the country's southeast, since the ground is softened, is saturated," Gurza said.

In the Oaxaca slide, rains and unstable soil forced police and firefighters to suspend the rescue efforts for hours. The search resumed Wednesday with picks, shovels and a bulldozer in the river of mud and stones that swept down the hillside.

The two bodies found were the 18- and 15-year-old daughters of the town's chief health official and his pregnant wife, state officials said. Mayor Antonio Martinez said the parents were among the missing.

The area was battered by the remnants of a hurricane one week and a tropical storm the next.

Oaxaca Gov. Ulises Ruiz initially told a Mexico City television station he had received reports that 300 homes were buried, with as many as 1,000 people inside.

But the estimates of casualties were gradually lowered during the day, and Tuesday night the governor confirmed that only 11 people were missing. Martinez said 10 houses were buried.

As they waited for police and firefighters, residents used backhoes and other rudimentary tools to find their neighbors Tuesday, but made little progress. They said most of the homes were completely covered and no voices could be heard within.

The U.S. government offered to pay for a team of Mexican rescuers to travel to the site.

Oaxaca state's Civil Protection operations coordinator, Luis Marin, said the state had seen three days straight of intense rain. The state government warned residents south of the city of Oaxaca of flooding from overflowing rivers and opened shelters in other parts of the state.

Santa Maria de Tlahuitoltepec, which had 9,000 residents in 2005 according to Mexican census data, is a community high in the Sierra Norte mountains known for maintaining its indigenous culture, especially its music. Residents speak the native language, Mixe, and its youth orchestra plays throughout Mexico.

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Associated Press writers Ixtli Martinez and Jose Maria Alvarez contributed to this report.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100930/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/lt_mexico_landslide

Gempa 7,4 SR Berpotensi Tsunami Guncang Papua

Gempa 7,4 SR Berpotensi Tsunami Guncang Papua

Data BMG mencatat, gempa ini merupakan gempa besar pertama yang mencapai lebih dari 7 SR.


KAMIS, 30 SEPTEMBER 2010, 00:51 WIB

Antique, Bayu Galih


Peta gempa di Indonesia (ANTARA/Widodo S. Jusuf)



VIVAnews - Gempa bumi berkekuatan 7,4 skala richter (SR) mengguncang kawasan Papua, pada Kamis dini hari, 30 September 2010 sekitar pukul 00.10

Seperti dikutip dari laman Badan Meteorologi dan Geofisika, pusat gempa terletak di koordinat 4.94 Lintang Selatan, 133.90 Bujur Timur. Ini berarti terletak di tenggara Kaimana, Papua Barat.

Pusat gempa berada di kedalaman 25 kilometer, di bawah permukaan Laut Arafura. BMG menjelaskan terdapat potensi Tsunami akibat gempa ini.

Namun, hingga kini belum diketahui adanya kerusakan akibat gempa dengan potensi Tsunami tersebut.

Data BMG mencatat, gempa ini merupakan gempa besar pertama yang mencapai lebih dari 7 SR dalam tiga bulan terakhir. Sebelumnya, gempa sebesar 6,5 skala richter terjadi di 138 timur laut Tual, Maluku pada 26 September 2010 silam. (umi)

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