JAKARTA - The Indonesian Institute of Sciences (LIPI), Jakarta and surrounding areas indicated will be swayed earthquake measuring 8.7 on the Richter Scale.
Earthquake experts LIPI, Dani Hilman, said the center measuring 8.7 magnitude quake was in the Sunda Strait, even according to the potential strength can be above 8.7 magnitude quake.
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[/caption]"The potential is there, but we can not say in detail because it is still in our research so the data is still a little," he said while talking to Legal (05/16/2011).
What he says is not without reason, in addition to doing research, Dani said the Sunda Strait is a continuation of the Mentawai who had already been rocked by an earthquake. "slats Sunda is a continuation of the Mentawai, but later we will examine closely," he explained.
He said the goal to do research to determine the likelihood of earthquakes, other than that for the government and society could be ready to anticipate the possibility of a sudden there was an earthquake. "So before it happens we must be ready, do not suddenly happen we be surprised," he said.
Earlier, the Special Staff of the President of Social Affairs and Disaster Andi Arief also said the same thing, Jakarta was rocked by an earthquake has the potential tsunami potential to 8.7 Richter scale.
"Jakarta saving potential, centered in the Sunda Strait. There used to be a huge release of energy in there, so there is a huge 8.7 magnitude earthquake in Jakarta. Currently we are modeling," he said in Jakarta yesterday.