Abstract
<em><span>Widiyantoro et al., as Institut Teknologi Bandung (ITB) scientists, predict the worst possibility that in the south of Java Island, a megathrust earthquake with a maximum magnitude of up to 9.1 on the Richter scale and a tsunami of up to 20 meters. So understanding and literacy about mitigation of the megathrust earthquake and tsunami need to be improved so that the South Coast of Java Island (Pansela) community has prepared for these disasters. This study aims to analyze the understanding and literacy of the Pansela community of the earthquake and tsunami disaster against the predictions made by ITB scientists. This study uses a qualitative descriptive method with a total of 57 community respondents living in Pansela. The study results show that most communities believe in this prediction and have fewer mitigation efforts against this disaster. However, the respondents still did not know the specifics of the megathrust earthquake. They considered an earthquake in the south of Java Island related to the megathrust earthquake. Therefore, it is necessary to increase community understanding and literacy regarding mitigation efforts against megathrust earthquakes and tsunami.</span></em>
Highlights
Java Island is very vulnerable to earthquakes and tsunamis because about 500 km from the South Coast of Java Island (Pansela) is a megathrust zone formed by the Indian Ocean plate subducting the Asian continent plate (Mulia et al, 2019; Priadi et al, 2020)
That the island of Java, which incidentally is the island with the highest population density in Indonesia, has a significant threat to earthquake and tsunami disasters, especially the southern area of Java
Respondents’ literacy regarding Do you know information that the information on the scientists from Institut Teknologi Bandung (ITB) predict a megathrust earthquake and megathrust earthquake and tsunami circulating in the mass tsunami as high as 20 meters that media in terms of information will occur on the south coast of literacy
Summary
Respondents’ literacy regarding Do you know information that the information on the scientists from ITB predict a megathrust earthquake and megathrust earthquake and tsunami circulating in the mass tsunami as high as 20 meters that media in terms of information will occur on the south coast of literacy. Respondents’ understanding of the relationship between earthquakes that have occurred and the predicted megathrust earthquake. It was found that respondents are dominated by high school graduates as much as 56%, student status 63%, and living in the lowlands 44%. The graph shows that most communities already know the information about the predictions that ITB scientists have made. This is in line with Priyowidodo’s research that the Pansela community already knows the natural characteristics of a tsunami, originating from their ancestors from generation to generation (Afrian and Islami, 2019)
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