Monday, July 20, 2009

The Impact of Landslide Disaster

The Impact of Landslide Disaster
to the People of Banjarnegara, Indonesia


From the rescoring result of PT. Perhutani’s team, there are some elements of the cause of landslide in Gunung Raja Village, Sijeruk in Gunung Pawinihan area which is exposed to the landslide disaster on Wedneday January 4, 2006 in early dawn with width of 30.6 acre, such as the slope of the land, the kind of soil and the amount of rainfall. The vegetation of forest in 44 C partition in Gunung Pawinihan area is dense and good. The area of Gunung Pawinihan geologically is a category of moving land which is sensitive to slide. The area of forest is dense, grown with many kind of trees with fragrant wood, pine, flowers, and histamine. The landslide happened there because the latosol layer of lithosphere was peeled because of the high rainfall and the shift of stone slab. Besides that, The area of Gunung Pawinihan is located on mean slope of 60 degree.

This greatest landslide disaster in Central Java, besides killing many people also piled up at least 102 houses, a mosque, kindergarten building, guardhouse, a unit of car and motorcycle. Besides that, hundreds of livestock were killed. Hundreds thousand of people who were in eight kecamatans spread in 46 villages threaten with landslide currently were squeezed with panic because based on the study of the Central Java Department of Mining and Energy, 46 villages have a high sensitivity of moving land.





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