Meulaboh Earthquake Situation Report No. 1 – May 10, 2010

Yesterday, May 9, 2010 at 12.51 WIB 7.2 RS earthquake hit Meulaboh, Aceh Barat at 3.61 LU – 95.84 BT
(http://www.bmg.go.id/60gempa.bmkg?Jenis=URL&IDS=9279258135813849788). The epicenters were at 1,4 mile from Pasir village (one of our DRR village), the 7,2 SR earthquake were feel for almost 1 minutes.

The community in Meulaboh, were panicking and were rush to the higher ground, and some accident were reported during the self evacuation. the video where the community is panicking can be seen in this link below:

http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=106008356110611

After we securing our neighbors to a field in our office, we assign the staff to see the situation around, we separate the staff into 3 team:
– 1st team (Johan and Koko) goes to our DRR village at Johan Pahlawan (Suak Indrapuri, Pasir Village) sub district from manekroo street and joint with KMPB to monitor the sea water on the beach.
– 2nd team (Alam and Nined) goes to batu putih, ujung karang kampung belakang and finally joint with KMPB team at Pasir village.
– 3rd Team (Dedi and Abenk) goes around the city and check our staff condition. Electricity were down for almost one hour, half-hour after the earthquake only Pro XL the only Mobile Phone provider that working, the Internet connection down for one hour, and still not stabile at this time

There is no major damage reported to us and also from the observation by the team. There is no fatal damage in Meulaboh although some houses reported cracked include one of our staff house.

At Kuala Bubon, Samatiga Subdistrict (half hour from meulaboh) there is 1 house damage reported and some incident also injured because people on that area were panickin. We coordinated with YEU, as they are working on this village and their also already send their medical team to Kuala Bubon village.
Our KMPB especially KMPB who live around the beach stand by and monitoring water on the beach a moment after earthquake happens and with sirene ready on their hand to provide early warning signals to the community in case needed.

One hour after earthquake district Government announce to Community using government information vehicle that BMG already canceled Tsunami warning, therefore the community who were self evacuated to the higher ground were back to their house again safely.

And now, Meulaboh situation totally back to normal.

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