An analysis of problem in composing of tsunami contingency plan in Padang City

Zikri Alhadi,Azhari Syarief,Karjuni Dt Maani,Pratiwi Nurhabibi,R Haigh,A Hakam,L Comfort,F.A Ismail

doi:10.1051/matecconf/201822903007

Abstract

Padang city is one of the most vulnerable areas of an earthquake potentially tsunami on the west coast of Sumatra Island. The government should formulate policies to minimize the impact of the disaster. The government and all relevant stakeholders should focus on disaster risk reduction efforts. As part of this effort is making policy in formulating contingency plans to deal with tsunami risk. Padang City Government has developed a contingency plan on tsunami risk since 2013 as a form of public policy. Even though the tsunami has not occurred in Padang City yet, but as a form of evaluation of this policy, it is necessary to analyze the problems in developing the contingency plan of the tsunami for the improvement of its future. Therefore, this article describes the results of the review of problem analysis in the policy of composing tsunami contingency plans in Padang City.

Highlights

According to Joseph Mayunga, a Texas A & M University disaster researcher, the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami experience, Katrina and Rita Hurricanes in 2005, and global warming illustrate that people are becoming more vulnerable to natural disasters
The description of the potential for disaster was not supplemented with preliminary data before deciding that the Padang city had great potential for a tsunami
If data about the occurrence of an earthquake can be displayed, it can make a decision on the importance of a tsunami disaster contingency plan

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Introduction

According to Joseph Mayunga, a Texas A & M University disaster researcher, the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami experience, Katrina and Rita Hurricanes in 2005, and global warming illustrate that people are becoming more vulnerable to natural disasters. Property damage show that our society is not sufficiently resistant to natural disasters. Based on LIPI (Indonesian Research Institution) research conducted by geophysicists Hilman, West Coast of Sumatra is the highest vulnerability area of the earthquake and tsunami in Indonesia due to the confluence of two active plate that is a Euro-Asian plate and Indo-Australian plate and because most of its residents are in disaster-prone areas and coastal areas [2]. Padang City as one of the west coast of Sumatera Island suffered a devastating earthquake on September 30, 2009, caused thousands of victims, buildings and public facilities were destroyed during the incident [3]

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