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Cummins, P.R.
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Recent earthquake disasters in Indonesia, such as the 2006 Yogyakarta (Mw 6.3, 5749 deaths) and the 2009 Padang (Mw 7.5, over 1100 deaths) earthquakes, together with a long history of earthquake occurrence suggesting the potential for even more lethal disasters in the future, highlight an urgent need for measures to reduce earthquake fatalities. Better land use planning, emergency management training based on credible earthquake scenarios, and improved building codes are all effective means for reducing earthquake fatalities, but these all need to be underpinned by a reliable earthquake hazard assessment. Moreover, a robust and sustainable process for periodically updating such assessments is needed in order to keep pace with developments in Indonesian geology and seismology that are rapidly improving the level of knowledge of earthquake occurrence and the propagation of seismic waves.
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- earthquakes
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- geohazards
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- seismology
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- Earth Sciences
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