BEIJING: China announced on Friday ( Sep 20 ) that it would “gradually resume” importing seafood from Japan after enforcing a blanket ban in August of last year over the release of water from the damaged Fukushima nuclear plant. According to a statement from the foreign government,” China will beginContinue Reading
JAKARTA: West Java’s sudden earthquake on Wednesday ( Sep 18 ) which left one dead and over 80 injured was triggered by an unmapped fault, according to Indonesian earthquake experts.
Abdul Muhari, the head of the National Agency for Disaster Management ( BNPB), stated on Thursday that researchers had originally anticipated the earthquake to have occurred on two effective shortcomings in West Java.
However, when modeling was done, it turned out that it had occurred on a problem that had formerly been unmapped.
According to Mr. Abdul,” There are two segments of the Garsela Fault, and neither is the Lembang Fault nor the lively Garsela wrong,” the distribution of the first disaster and aftershocks was confirmed by the Antara news organization.
The West Java Regional Disaster Management Agency ( BPBD ) reported that the magnitude-5 earthquake in Bandung damaged hundreds of houses with a loss of 385 billion rupiah ( US$ 25 million ) and displaced more than 700 people.
The centre was located 25 kilometers south of Bandung regency, on a 10 km stretch of land.
Because it is situated at the confluence of three geological sheets, known as the Ring of Fire, Indonesia is one of the most earthquake-prone nations in the world.
Researchers have said that a massive earthquake, probably followed by a storm, is expected in Indonesia, due to action on the subduction, the area where two big plates meet.
In his article on X in August, Mr. Daryono, brain of the BMKG’s Earthquake and Tsunami Centre, wrote about the two megathrusts in Sumatra and Java,” The release of disasters can be said to be a matter of time.” It has been hundreds of years since a major disaster occurred.
Like some Indonesians, Mr Daryano goes by one title.  ,
In Indonesia, work is still being done to chart energetic faults in order to develop effective disaster mitigation plans.
In the last 10,000 years, effective faults have moved or caused disasters.  ,
Researcher from the National Research and Innovation Agency ( BRIN ) Nuraini Rahmah Hanifa in April said that in the 2017 Indonesian earthquake mapping, there were 295 active faults throughout Indonesia, 31 of which were in Java, the country’s most populous island.
With better technologies, researchers in 2024 found more active shortcomings that were formerly unmapped. Now, there are more than 400 effective faults in Indonesia, 75 of which are on Java Island.  ,
” Of these, less than 30 per cent have well-known guidelines”, Ms Nuraini was quoted as saying on BRIN’s site in April.  ,
In Indonesia, there have been several sudden disasters triggered by unmapped failings. One of the biggest was the disaster in Cianjur, West Java, in 2022, which killed around 600 people and destroyed 58, 000 properties.
Mr. Abdul, a representative for BNPB, claimed that the agency has become increasingly concerned about the Bandung earthquake because it has discovered active fault points that have n’t been mapped to reduce the number of casualties.
Ms. Nuraini explained that the government can slim down disaster-prone areas and use the tracking data as a foundation for hazard mitigation policies because appropriate fault mapping and appropriate catastrophe mitigation strategies are present.
She acknowledges, nevertheless, that tracking effective faults is not simple, especially in places like Java, which is already densely populated.  ,
” Geological study calls for digging in the earth. If there are many homes, it makes it more difficult to do the research”, said Ms Nuraini.  ,
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Shanghai, the country’s largest city, was hit by its second typhoon days after it received its strongest storm in 75 years when roads and neighborhoods were flooded on Friday ( Sep 20 ).
Typhoon Pulasan made land on Thursday evening in the state’s Fengxian city, with a peak wind velocity of 83kmh, according to state-run Xinhua news agency.
Although downpours continued in the area on Friday day, the storm is “is forecast to gradually diminish as it moves inland,” according to Xinhua.
Although no serious harm or deaths have been reported so far, movies that were posted on social media Friday showed Shanghai people wading through calf-level waters in some neighborhoods.
As the wind made its way toward Shanghai on Thursday, parts of the city’s typhoon call levels increased.
Typhoon Bebinca, which was the biggest storm to strike the megacity since 1949, wreaked havoc on Monday with Pulasan.
Bebinca felled more than 1, 800 branches and left 30, 000 communities without power, with government evacuating more than 400, 000 people across Shanghai ahead of the storm.
According to experts, severe weather is becoming more frequent and intense because of climate change, which is being exacerbated by greenhouse gas emissions.
China produces the most greenhouse chemicals globally, but its per capita emissions are insignificant in comparison to the United States’.
In a move that will increase its capacity to install Vehicle Entry Permit (VEP ) tags by five times, Malaysia will open two new locations in Johor for Singaporean vehicle owners.
The Road Transport Department ( JPJ) announced in a statement on Thursday night that the two new centers will open on Sunday ( Sep 22 ).  ,
Create two additional service locations to help Singapore car owners to place the VEP RFID tag in an effort to improve the VEP RFID ( radio frequency identification ) label registration process, according to the statement.
” This effort aims to help the installation of VEP RFID tags on Taiwanese car owners who have been assisted by JPJ officials there.”
The statement made no mention of whether car owners may pick up their VEPs at the new locations.  ,
The two new locations will be at the Johor State Road Transport Department JPJ Complex in Taman Daya and at the Road Transport Academy ( Southern Region ) in Larkin, according to a JPJ statement. They can provide 400 and 800 vehicles with service each day, both.  ,
JPJ also urged all international vehicle owners to quickly record, place, and install their RFID VEP tags to prevent any issues when entering and leaving Malaysia in the future.
The speech directed users to the JPJ site for registration and additional details.  ,
As the Oct. 1 date approaches, the planned new locations serve as a result of a plan to simplify the VEP software process.  ,
Now, the TCSens business in Danga Bay, which may provide up to 300 vehicles a time, is the only collection center in Johor.
Singapore has one center, located in Woodlands, which may solve around 100 requests per day.
Individuals can also pick up the keywords by mail, but some people prefer to possess them installed at authorized centers, which results in a lot of desire and long lines.
The Woodlands center had to make a special effort to simply serve those with previous appointments, with the daily 100 slots being filled up at least once a week in advance.
Many car owners in Singapore have reported dealing with uncertainty and difficulties as a result of the announcement that Malaysia may implement the VEP.  ,
Some people had problems deregistering the VEP programs of past owners while others, who drive second-hand vehicles, were unable to complete online payments.
Malaysia’s Transportation Minister Anthony Loke announced in May that all foreign-registered cars traveling by land from Singapore will be required to apply VEPs starting on October 1.
Motorists who fail to do so may be fined up to RM2, 000 ( US$ 475 ) or jailed for up to six months.
An estimated 300, 000 persons cross Malaysia and Singapore each day via the Johor-Singapore Causeway, one of the busiest border bridges in the world.
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It is” a huge experiment” that the studio is embarking with blockchain technology, said Nexon Universe’s head of strategy Keith Kim on Wednesday ( Sep 18 ).
We think it will be natural, and it will help us stay sustainable for at least 20 years.
He was speaking to CNA on the day of Token2049, the biggest crypto function of the year in Singapore, where the business presented its concept for utilizing blockchain technology.
Nexon, the creator of MapleStory, has ingeniously merged the famous online online activity with blockchain technology. More than 20 years after its release, the sport has a significantly longer shelf life and is still being played by a dedicated group.
The blockchain project MapleStory Universe creates a dynamic virtual ecosystem where various MapleStory-created games and applications interact with non-fungible tokens ( NFTs ).
Nexon has created its own sign to encourage players to create in-game information, a task that is typically handled by game developers.
Users are given the option to trade property within the game’s habitat and acquire electronic rights as a result.
” ( By ) utilising web3 technology tokens, we are actually allowing this process to be driven by the market”, said Mr Kim.
” That means this gift will have a cost, and this particular value, in turn, may work as a cost of release. Therefore, issuance will no longer be governed by a centralized object and been driven by market dynamics.
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