Keong IT helped build PeacefulIndonesia.com

KeongMas Admin — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 01:51:08 +0000

Keong IT helped Overseas Think Tank for Indonesia group to create & maintain http://www.peacefulindonesia.com. Please visit the website & sign the petition to support them.

Keong Mas in TPM XIV 2007

KeongMas Admin — Tue, 28 Aug 2007 07:18:29 +0000

Keong Mas will participate in Temuwicara Pelayanan Mancanegara (TPM) XIV 2007. This year, TPM will be celebrated at Chicago, IL USA from August 31st - September 3rd, 2007.

We are very excited to meet passionate people which care about Indonesia as much as we do. We will give an hour presentation about Keong Mas in general, our current ongoing projects & and our hopes in the future.

Don’t miss it if you are going to be there!

More information about TPM can be found in FICA website.

Credit: Chris on guitar

Yogyakarta Relief Fund

KeongMas Admin — Sat, 27 May 2006 08:00:59 +0000

Contact Info: Keong Mas Email: keongmas@keongmas.net URL: http://www.keongmas.org

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A Glimpse of the Earthquake
The following is a release by the United States Geological Survey, National Earthquake Information Center:

A strong earthquake occurred IN JAVA, INDONESIA about 25 km (15 miles) SSW of Yogyakarta or about 440 km (275 miles) ESE of JAKARTA at 4:54 PM MDT, May 26, 2006 (May 27 at 5:54 AM local time in Java, Indonesia). The magnitude and location may be revised when additional data and further analysis results are available.

Felt Reports
At least 5,700 people killed, 1,800 injured and many buildings damaged in the Bantul-Yogyakarta area. Felt (VIII) at Yogyakarta, (VII) at Sleman, (V) at Surakarta, (IV) at Salatiga and (II) at Surabaya. Felt in much of Java. Also felt at Denpasar, Bali.

Tectonic Summary
The tectonics of Java are dominated by the subduction of the Australia plate north-northeastward beneath the Sunda plate with a relative velocity of about 6 cm/year. The Australia plate dips north-northeastward from the Java trench, attaining depths of 100-200 km beneath the island of Java, and depths of 600 km north of the island. The earthquake of 26 May 2006 occurred at shallow depth in the overriding Sunda plate well above the dipping Australia plate.

From presently available data, we do not know if there is a direct link between the May 26 earthquake and the ongoing eruption of the volcano Merapi which is several tens of kilometers to the north. The occurrence of shallow-focus earthquakes near volcanoes is not unusual worldwide. Sometimes the association of earthquakes and volcanic eruptions is so close in space and time that it is clear that the earthquakes are triggered by the magmatic processes that are causing the eruption. In the cases of many earthquakes that occur in the general vicinity of volcanoes, however, there are not obvious links to volcanic eruptions. In these cases, the general spatial association of volcanoes and earthquakes is probably due to both seismic and magmatic phenomena being localized by a broader tectonic process.

Sources: Yahoo