Invitation Focus Group Discussion Tsunami : October 12, 2018 | 19.45 -21.30 hrs | Indonesian Embassy | The Hague
Wiwi Tjiook
Dear Sir, Madam,
Herewith the Indonesian Diaspora Network- The Netherlands would like to invite you to join a Focus Group Discussion to be held on:
Date: October 12, 2018
Time: 19.45-21.30 hrs
Venue: Aula Nusantara, Tobias Asserlaan 8, The Hague
Programme:
- 19.45 - 20.00 - Registration
- 20.00 - 20.05 - Opening
- 20.05 - 20.10 - Speech by HE I Gusti Agung Wesaka Puja (tbc)
- 20.10 - 20.30 - 'String of events Palu Tsunami' by Ir. Gerard Pichel
- 20.30 - 20.45 - Q&A
- 20.45 - 21.05 - 'Medical Trauma Experiences and Lessons from 2004 Aceh Tsunami' by Dr. Tik Tan
- 21.05 - 21.20 - Q&A
- 21.20 - 21.30 - Conclusion and closure
To attend kindly RSVP by e-mail to: idn.livea...@gmail.com
Looking forward to meet you on October 12.
Yours sincerely,
The Board of Indonesian Diaspora Network- The Netherlands
Summary of presentations
‘String of events Palu tsunami’ – by Ir. Gerard Pichel
Last month we experienced the earthquake and tsunami hitting Donggala and Palu, Sulawesi. Epicenter was not far from Donggala. Right after the earthquake, a tsunami started to develop, say within ten minutes after the quake. Usually a tsunami is triggered by a vertical movement of a fault but this Donggala quake was a HORIZONTAL movement of two broken plates. The fault just is running through the bay and through Palu city. Hence, the tsunami might have been caused by a large-scale underwater geotechnical sliding of sediments, probably deposited in the bay itself (hypothesis). Right after the quake, the national seismic agency BMKG issued a tsunami warning but after 30 minutes it lifted the warning...we do not know why. In international practice, usually the warning signal is maintained/enforced for two (2) full hours. Moreover, the tsunami solitary wave propagated so fast that it would be too late already for the local population to evacuate to higher grounds (lead time is short). Discussion was viral on the time delays from floating observation buoys to BMKG software/prediction models and onward to produce a reliable early warning signal to reach the local populations. The hydrodynamic propagation time of the tsunami wave from Donggala toward Palu was too short as compared to the total number of minutes needed by BMKG to assess the tsunami risks with computer-aided tools. The planform shape of the bay in terms of length, depth and breadth act as a long hydraulic flume in which a wave can easily and quickly and frictionlessly travel without hindrance and any peak attenuation. The lecture by Ir. Gerard Pichel (hydraulic engineer) will address all these issues on Friday 12 October 2018, at the KBRI, The Hague.
‘Medical trauma experiences and lessons from 2004 Aceh tsunami’ – by Dr. Tik Tan
The most
devastating and deadliest natural disaster of the tsunami in Aceh with a scale
of Richter 9,3 on December 26, 2004 had killed more than 200.000 people in Aceh
and far beyond and around the circles of the immense flood gulf.
In a very chaotic area where not only all the infrastructures and
communications were wiped out for a long chaotic period, but also at that
moment an area still in war, blindly helping victims can make helpers and
volunteers be the new victims of the situation so that problems can be more
complicated and devastating. In those situations there were more than only acute
traumatic medical problems.
Quick responses and good collaborations and team work approaches were needed to
organize a Medical NGO trauma team.
A well calculated and tremendous tactical approach with local and Dutch team
work were needed to succeed helping the survived traumatic victims.
What can we learn from these experiences?
An experience of a Diaspora medical doctor who was on Christmas holiday and
never heard about the Tsunami will be presented shortly.
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