Eruption Characteristic of the Sleeping Volcano, Sinabung, North Sumatera, Indonesia, and SMS Gateway for Disaster Early Warning System

Abstract

Sinabung, the sleeping volcano since the year 1600 awakened and erupted in 2010, 2013, and 2015. The volcano is located in Karo District, North Sumatera Province, Indonesia, geographically on 3o10' North Latitude, and 98o23, East Longitude. It is about 2460 m high above sea level, and the highest volcano of Sumatera. Sinabung has been estimated about 400 years long inactive, therefore categorized as B type of volcano. It was astonishing; Sinabung erupted on 27 August 2010, again on November 2013, and in May to June 2015. Awakening of the volcano hypothetically has been triggered by last decade earthquakes happened in North Sumatera and surrounding area, including the great earthquake and tsunami of Aceh, December 2004 that caused about 115,000 people died. Because of the volcano has been slept for a long time, people live in the surrounding area were not prepared yet to facing the eruption. To reduce the risk, such a countermeasure should be developed especially that directly involving local people participation. In this case, such an environmental communication system is needed to be developed; it is SMS gate way for disaster early warning system. Abstrak

The level participation in efforts mount Kelud eruption disaster mitigation in East Java

“…Low participation because of low interaction and a sense of belonging to environment surrounding. According to Kusumayudha, Lestari, and Paripurno (2018), because the volcano not active for long time, people around Mounth Sinabung not prepared yet to facing the eruption. It is same as the migran who don't have experience.…”

“…People more easily to reach locations. According to Kusumayudha, Lestari, and Paripurno (2018) awakening of the volcano hypotetically can support people to know about the character of volcano. All area leaving the entire property and is more concerned with personal safety.…”

“…There are victim people deaths caused by the volcanic ash affected by respiratory problems, 2 people in Blitar Regency. According to Kusumayudha, Lestari, and Paripurno (2018) to reduce the risk, such a countermeasure should be developed especially that directly involving local people participation. According to Setiawan, Kingma, and Westen (2014) one of ways to reduce victim in the landslide disaster is participation of NGOs in disaster activities because helping the community when disaster strikes and enhancement of dissemination about landslide to the local community.…”

“…The action is one of effort to reduce the level of damages or victim caused by a natural disaster, or often referred as part of disaster management. According to Kusumayudha, Lestari, and Paripurno (2018) the use of SMS gateway is expected able to increase public and government awareness in order to reduce risk and disaster victims. A variety of natural disaster hazards that comes without planned, Indonesian people living in disaster disturbed areas should prepare for a natural disaster to minimize the victims.…”

Audit of Disaster Communication on TVOne Kabar Petang Program

“…Indonesia is a disaster-prone country which has the largest number of active volcanoes in the world (Asteria, 2016;Widodo, Nugroho, & Asteria, 2018). One of the volcanoes that are still active today is Mount Sinabung, located in Karo Regency, North Sumatra (Kusumayudha, Lestari, & Paripurno, 2018). In May 2019, Sinabung erupted, sending volcanic material as high as 2000 meters into the sky (Lestari, Kertamukti, & Ruliana, 2019).…”