Open AccessPreface of destructive m<5 earthquakes in Java island, 2015-2019
Author(s) -
Admiral Musa Julius,
- Daryono,
I Dewa Ketut Kerta Widana
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
iop conference series. earth and environmental science
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1755-1307
pISSN - 1755-1315
DOI - 10.1088/1755-1315/708/1/012106
Subject(s) - damages , earthquake casualty estimation , seismology , magnitude (astronomy) , seismic hazard , geology , urban seismic risk , java , types of earthquake , geography , forensic engineering , engineering , law , computer science , political science , physics , astronomy , programming language
This study aims to denote the possible casualties and damages due to the M<5 earthquake. We used the desk study of literatures to explore earthquake disaster reports. The published significant and destructive earthquakes catalogue by BMKG Indonesia along 2015-2019 noted that six events out of them in Java island due to by below magnitude 5 (M<5) earthquakes. Those are sourced in the land and shallow depth focus on the active faults region. Those earthquakes also cause human losses, that is three events out of them induce casualties, and kill two (2) people. Preliminary analysis concludes that the short distance to earthquake source and local site condition was responsible for this unexpected building damages. We suggest this events to be the lesson learned for disaster risk managers to consider the low magnitude earthquake also able to generate the high hazard on the certain seismic prone areas.