The world’s largest archipelago, Indonesia, is located between the world’s most active seismic region, called the Pacific Ring of Fire, and the world’s second most active region, the Alpide belt.. Pacific Ring of Fire, in the Western Hemisphere; The world’s largest earthquake belt, due to a series of 40 thousand km of fault lines from Chile to Japan and Southeast Asia.
Under Indonesia, Eurasian Plate, Australian Plate, Indian Plate, Sunda Plate and Pacific Plate coexist. Other major ruptures along this fault line known as the “Sunda megathrust” caused an earthquake with a magnitude of 9.1 off the coast of Indonesia on December 26, 2004, and the subsequent tsunamis and waves of 12 meters at a speed of 500 km per hour completely engulfed the southeast Asian Coasts. It caused more than 250,000 people to die.
Indonesia is famous for its famous natural disasters.. The village of Bukit Lawang, where we stayed, was flooded on November 2, 2003.. Around 400 houses, 3 mosques, 8 bridges, nearly 280 shops and restaurants, and many hotels and guesthouses were taken away by the waters.. 239 people, 5 of whom were tourists, died in this flood.. In June 2004, the village reopened more regularly than before.
There are more than 150 volcanoes in Indonesia, most of which are extinct but some are still active.. The country itself is already made up of volcanic islands. 17,500 islands with 235 million inhabitants scattered around the equator line! These islands, sandwiched between two earthquake belts, have suffered the strongest volcanic eruptions and the strongest earthquakes in the world.
From October 26, 2010, Merapi Volcano has erupted 10 times and About 500 people died in these explosions.. Again, the 1930 Merapi Volcano eruption caused more than 1,300 deaths.. It was like a train was passing over the house.. There was an earthquake. The sound like thunder made me think that the volcano was erupting at first.
When I got up in bed, I saw the door opposite me go and go before my eyes.. I waited for the earthquake to subside but it was still going on so I woke Farid who was asleep. We were sitting on the beds where we lay without moving and listening to the earthquake.
The walls of the hotel we stayed in were made of fired brick and it had a high wooden roof.. We didn’t go out because I felt safe with the building.. After the earthquake, which lasted for a few more seconds, we continued to sleep.. We could hear people talking worried outside. I think it lasted more than 10 seconds.
The earthquake occurred with a magnitude of 6.6 at a depth of 52 kilometers, about 400 kilometers southeast of Banda Aceh, the hometown of Sonia, who helped us at Bukit Lawang.. We were told that 3 people lost their lives.
There has been an earthquake in whichever country I have been to since August 2010.. There was a slight earthquake in Thailand.. A few hours before I arrived in New Zealand on September 4, there was an earthquake with a magnitude of 7 in Christchurch, but no one died.
While visiting New Zealand’s South Island, I stayed in Christchurch and witnessed all the traces and ruins of the earthquake.. A month after I left Christchurch, on February 22, 2011, 65 people, including a Turkish girl, died in the second Christchurch earthquake with a magnitude of 6.3.. Friends started hanging out with me saying you rock where you go.
When I moved to Fiji on March 30, 2011, a few days later, on April 4, there was an earthquake with a magnitude of 6.4.. There was no tsunami or death in the earthquake that occurred at sea 320 km west of the city of Suva.
The day I arrived in Australia, on April 15, 2011, it was 5.2 in the state of Queensland, and on 17 April it was 5.2 in Western Australia. there was an earthquake. It’s a coincidence!
My friends tell me I rock every country I go to. I’m just someone who likes to be on the road. For me these are just moments that leave a story behind.. While some are scary.
Day 398, ID:55, Bukit Lawang Jungle, Camping, Sumatra. Tuesday, September 6, 2011