HAWAIIAN EARTH

The Mentawai Islands is a distance of 150 km off the coast of Sumatra Island. The distance that is far reached from the city of Padang, the capital of West Sumatra, using a passenger boat for 12 hours. Laughing is inaugurated by 64.235 of the most souls are natives. The 601 km square area consists of 213 islands with 4 main islands: Siberut, Sipora, North Pagai and South Pagai. The city in the Old Pejat, Mentawai divided into 4 districts and 40 villages.

However, the earthquake is 7.2 The Richter Scale (SR) is broken with a tsunami wave of 8-12 meters above the archipelago on October 25, 2010. The earthquake center is at 3.61 south latitude (SL)-99.93 East Bujur (BT) at the center of 78 km southwest of Pagai Selatan, the Mentawai Islands, on Monday (25/10) around 21.42 WIB, reporting the porch of those areas overlooking the Indian Ocean to the ground by the tsunami wave sweep.

Two days later, help begin to get handy. However bad weather makes refugees must be patient. A total of 22.595 people of the Mentawai Islands are still contemplated in emergency tents and high places because it is believed to be safe from the longest of the tsunami. Tangis has not been dry, but the suffering is much more because the help is difficult to be distributed due to bad weather. In the dusun-dusun it, they are separate by the cellat, ocean, and continue to evener their family’s departure among the ruins of the house’s debris.