Aceh Convulsion on 11 April 2012 Foreign Allegations

President or Chairman of the Indonesian Geologists Association (IAGI) Rovicky Putrohadi Dwi said that the convulsion as happened in Aceh on Wednesday (4/11/2012) is in fact rare.

“The convulsion occurred bygone abreast the NER (Ninety East Ridge). Earthquakes are attenuate in this area,” he said if contacted Rovicky Kompas.com, Thursday (04/12/2012).

NER is the trace of the Indian amphibian bowl biking to the arctic aback 71 actor years ago. NER of the aback of the sea that extends 5,000 km from the Bay of Bengal to the south to southeast Indian Ridge.

Rovicky said that the aboriginal convulsion occurred forth a lot of NER. However, accepted earthquakes are almost rare. That said, this breadth has been abeyant or alleged aseismik.

“Rarely occurs because lempengnya move beeline and parallel, almost added ’slippery’. So accumulate it moving, but does not could cause an earthquake,” said Rovicky.

Therefore, Rovicky argues, the convulsion on Wednesday could not be afar from the Aceh convulsion of 2004. According Rovicky, 2004 Aceh convulsion put burden on the southern allotment of Aceh so terluapkan in the anatomy of an convulsion yesterday.

Recorded, an convulsion with a backbone of 8.5 accompanying earthquakes on the Richter Scale and 8.1 on the Richter Scale, followed by abundant aftershocks occurred in the breadth yesterday.

The convulsion acquired a baby tsunami in Nias as top as 1 meter, 80 cm in Meulaboh, and 6 cm in Sabang.

With the accident of earthquakes in the alien breadth was unexpected, it agency that every convulsion that occurs at sea remained to watch.

Location of ample consequence convulsion could not anon accepted whether the breadth is already a lot of abeyant tsunami able peekirakan or not.