Implementation of a quick assessment application called InaRISK for damaged houses after the West Pasaman Earthquake (2022)

Abstract

West Sumatra, located at the boundary of two of Earth’s shifting tectonic plates, is prone to natural disasters, especially earthquake. On 25th February 2022, an earthquake centered 18 km northeast of Simpang Empat, the capital city of West Pasaman, with a magnitude of 5.2 M, struck off at 08.35 WIB. This earthquake claimed lives and damaged buildings. After the earthquake, the need for rehabilitation and reconstruction is indispensable. Various methods are used in assessing the damaged houses, however, the assessment still use the manual method but is assessed as having many shortcomings. In the case of West Pasaman earthquake, the start of application-based to collect data is improvement to the manual method with its practicality and time-saving capability. This application, developed by National Agency for Disaster Countermeasure (BNPB) is called InaRisk. Although this application has made a breakthrough, improvement for this application is required as there are still drawbacks especially it cannot be be used without internet connection. This paper discusses the usage of a quick assessment application called InaRISK for damaged houses after the West Pasaman earthquake. A new assessment method developed by Andalas University Team called Earthquake Rapid Assessment (E-RA) is also discussed in this paper.