[HOT] Indonesia Earthquake magnitude 6.1

[Yantisa Akhadi]

The government are sending two airplanes to do aerial mapping to capture
the impact of earthquake. Will see if it is possible to get access to the
image.

-Iyan


On Thu, Jul 4, 2013 at 4:53 AM, Andrew Buck <andrew.r.buck at gmail.com> wrote:

> Earlier today there was a 6.1 magnitude earthquake in Indonesia the
> epicenter is the link below.
>
> http://www.openstreetmap.org/?mlat=4.6978&mlon=96.6871&zoom=16&layers=M
>
> Although 6.1 is reasonably powerful, Indonesia experiences many
> earthquakes and so the damage from this one is somewhat moderate.  Current
> reports are between 20 and 100 fatalities so far with some people displaced
> from collapsed buildings.  The response will likely be local and not
> involve the international community, but we have started mapping roads in
> the areas just as a precaution, and we continue to monitor the situation.
>
> Earthquakes such as this can be the precursor to a later, much larger,
> aftershock.  So a bit of mapping now might be very useful if a later such
> earthquake does occur.  Right now the focus is on roads, and bridges.  Some
> building tracing of key buildings (large buildings, mosques, etc) is
> useful, but complete building coverage is probably overkill.
>
> The larger town of Takengon to the east of the epicenter suffered minimal
> damage, but this is the nearest larger town, so it may be worth tracing
> streets there if this becomes a disaster response headquarters.
>
> http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=4.6234&lon=96.8518&zoom=14&layers=M
>
> -AndrewBuck
>
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