Megathrust threat, DKI residents urged to be ready for money – Important documents

Jakarta, CNN Indonesia —

Regional Disaster Management Agency (BPBD) DKI Jakarta urges the public to prepare important documents so that funds can be prepared megathrust earthquake Sunda Strait Region.

The head of DKI Jakarta BPBD’s Data and Information Center (Kapusdatin), Mohamad Yohan, suggested storing these letters in a disaster bag. Additionally, Jakarta residents can make copies at Cell phone.

“So when a disaster threatens, the basic things that need to be there are clothes, medicine, important documents, then of course money,” Yohan told reporters, Thursday ( 19/9).

Yohan also pointed to the recent flood disaster in China. At that time, Chinese citizens only relied on transfers. They do not prepare money to buy basic needs. At the same time the electricity is off and there is no signal, so they are isolated.

“So money still needs to be prepared outside of our current practices,” he said.

Yohan said Jakarta was at risk of secondary effects from large earthquakes produced by the megathrust zone, even though the center of the megathrust zone was located on the west coast of Sumatra and southern Java.

He said that Jakarta was not directly above the megathrust zone, but shocks from a large earthquake can still be felt in this area.

Moreover, it continued, because Jakarta’s location is relatively close to the southern Java fault.

(lna/isn)

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