lombok

Question 1

lombok 2018 august quake

Answer 1

5th august

6.9 quake

Question 2

causes for hazard

Answer 2

island lying on pacific ring of fire, area with significant tectonic activity
lies on a subduction zone of indonesian plate to australian

Question 3

primary effect

Answer 3

80% lombok destroyed , $268M
over 550 deaths
353,000 internally displaced

Question 4

secondary impacts

Answer 4

landslides on mount rinjani stranding 500 tourists on this popular attraction
> natural feature increases risk to area
>short term economic loss as area closed
350 aftershocks
> one one 8th August of 6.2 killing 13 more

Question 5

responses

Answer 5

3 week state of emergency
30,000 tents provided by overseas aid
> NGO, EU $650,000
relief effors focused on urban areas first then rural areas
> spacial inequalities
> indonesion red cross accessed remote villages

Question 6

links to hazards

Answer 6

primary most DESTRUCTION but secondary most DISPRUPTIVE, elongating the recovery time

Question 7

links to hazard models

Answer 7

longer recovery time as lack of communication and disruption of aid (corruption)
already had a poor capacity to cope making rehabilitation stage harder and even after a year 98% rubble remains uncleared
> still in the reconstruction stage. prompted government to make a plan but little implementation

Question 8

links to hazard models

cycle

Answer 8

lack of education/awareness so no preparation for events
little mitigation/adaption techniques as most infrastructure was not built to withstand seismic waves.
still recovering from the storms so the quality of life lower