Final Blog Post
Indonesia’s geographical location puts it at major risk for a variety of natural disasters. These disasters, such as volcanic eruptions, earthquakes, tsunamis and floods have claimed the lives of hundreds of thousands of people in just the last few decades and caused immense infrastructural and economic damage that will affect generations to come. Indonesia falls on the meeting point of several tectonic plates. It is located between two continental plates, the Eurasian plate and the Indo-Australian plate, and two oceanic plates, the Philippine plate and the Pacific plate. Due to the combination of its plate boundaries and location on the Pacific Ring of Fire, high tectonic activity is an ever-present risk that all Indonesians live with. Earthquakes are probably the biggest natural threat to Indonesia, given that they, unlike volcanoes, can strike at any time, any location and with almost zero warning. The country experiences roughly magnitude 5 earthquakes almost daily, and on ave...
