Sitting in a earthquake prone area is no joke. Indonesia should know. It sits in an area know as the Pacific “Ring of Fire”. An undersea earthquake on Boxing Day in 2004 generated huge tsunami waves that took the lives of nearly a quarter of a million people across 11 countries.
The undersea tremblor on September 2 measuring 7 magnitude has already claimed at least 64 death in Java, and this can get higher as rescuers raced against time to find survivors trapped in mudslides. Two aftershocks hit Java that same afternoon, measuring magnitude 5.1 and 5.4 respectively.
Since then Indonesia has been hit with more earthquakes. On September 4, another earthquake hit the western tip of Java. This 5.6 magnitude tremblor occurred in the Sunda Straits.
A day earlier, two other earthquakes struck at Indonesia’s easternmost provinces of Papua and West Papua with magnitudes of 5.3 and 5.6 respectively. These 2 earthquakes are not related to the Java earthquake.
That’s 3 days in a row, from Wednesday to Friday, that Indonesia has been struck with earthquakes. It seems that earthquakes are happening more frequently nowadays. Indeed this week, more earthquakes are reported in various parts of Indonesia. Is the big one on the way?
Think about it. What is life? Is it not like the mist in the morning? Here one moment, gone the next. We can’t do anything about it. None of the 64 victims of the Java earthquake expected to die in that September 2 earthquake. Is there no meaning to life? Are we prepared for death – sudden death, be it due to illnesses, accidents or to natural disasters?
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