Yogyakarta Earthquake 2007

Dear friend,
Do you still remember about the big natural disaster in Yogyakarta, May 26th 2007 that killed thousands peoples?
What is it?
Yeah.... the big earthquake of Yogyakarta.

Now, I’d like to tell you my past experience about it.
We know that the big earthquake which happened at some years ago, certainly left the sad remembrance in our minds and memories. A big natural disaster that I never experience before, which called the earthquake of Yogyakarta.

It happened on Saturday at 05.55 West Indonesia Time, when a lot of people still in their dreaming, and not long after I got up. The earthquake took place during 57 seconds, right when I took a bath. I don’t know what happened at the moment. I think it was only the mice which usually make a noise. After my parent said, “Earthquake, earthquake!”, I was conscious, it was an earthquake. I was in my house and my parent were out. After that, I went out with my towel, so my parent and all people around my house, left their activities, dispersed to save themself. I and my family prayed together for our safety then. The shake is felt so fast and big. Not long after that, it began to stop. There’s no death toll, only my roof tiles were falled down.

The earthquake was centered on the Bantul regency, was of 5,9 magnitude body or 6,3 magnitude moment, with the epicentre in the 8,26 degrees LS and 110,31 degrees BT and 33 km depth. Although the hypocentre was in the sea, it wasn’t cause the tsunami. The earthquake was also felt in Solo, Semarang, Kebumen, and Banyumas. Whereas the shake was felt in several towns, such as Ngawi, Madiun, Kediri, Surabaya.

After the earthquake stopped, I went to school. I looked my school's fence but not long after that, about 7.15 a.m. my school was dispersed, because of the tsunami’s issue. People ran to go to the high place, to the North then I and my friend followed it. Really, it only the bad issue. The main cause of Indonesian’s disasters is Indonesian stays between three main world plate, that’s Australian, Eurasian and Pasific plates. It also stays in the position Ring of Fire which make Indonesian often get the earthquake and volcano eruption. Although in the same time, Mount Merapi which stayed in the teritorial (Yogyakarta) was erupting, the expertman said both of the occurence weren’t related.

The bad situation didn’t stop here. The addition earthquake happened for several times, like at 06.10 a.m., 08.15 a.m., 11.12 a.m., and the night day. I and my family felt so scared at that day. We couldn’t sleep at the night. We only could stand by with the news in radio or TV. The earthquake resulted a lot of house and building caved in, broke the electric instalation and communication. Seven days after the earthquake, there was a lot of location in Bantul weren’t flowed by the electricity. It also resulted Adi Sucipto Airport was closed cause of the breakage in.

The most severe teritorial was Bantul, inclusive of Klaten. All buildings were razed. SBY, the Indonesian President, asked to do the rapid emergency response measures. A lot of helps were offered, such as from Britania Raya, Australia, RRC, AS, etc. The International Red Cross, UNICEF had given several tents and the emergency stocks to the victims. This auxiliaries went on untill the rehabilitation stage and reconstruction. The inhabitant, included my family, cleaned the debris around our house.

Besides the earthquake made breakage of buildings, it caused a traumatid to children and several adult. The government, especially The Comission of Children Protection, did some efforts to handle it.
This big earthquake that won’t be left from my mind. It left the deep experince for me. I think it is enough. You also can watch the video about the earthquake of Yogya. Thank you for your attention.

See you and God bless us. ^_^