The Idea of the “TERRESAPP” Application Leads the ITB Geophysical Engineering Student Team to Win the 2021 LKTIN
The FTTM – ITB Geophysical Engineering Student Team won the 2021 National Scientific Writing Competition (LKTIN) on Disasters. The Geophysical Engineering Student Team are students from the class of 2019, and they are Tania Suara Ning Tyas, Haniya Salsa Billa, and Fichri Firmansyah. Tania et al. presented the idea of the TERREAPP Application and explained it in a scientific article entitled Strengthening Disaster Education and Literacy as an Effort for the Palu City Community to Prepare for Disasters Through the Terresapp Application.
The National Scientific Writing Competition (LKTIN) on Disaster activities begins with submitting an abstract. Participants whose abstracts are declared passed by the committee will proceed to the stage of writing a more complete and detailed scientific paper. In the process of writing abstracts and scientific papers, the ITB Geophysical Engineering Student Team was accompanied and guided by Dr. Ir. Zulfakriza is also a lecturer in the Geophysical Engineering Study Program FTTM – ITB.
This LKTIN Disaster activity was organized by the Geography Education Study Program FKIP Tadulako University and was attended by 62 participating teams from various campuses, such as the University of Indonesia, Bandung Institute of Technology, Diponegoro University, Indonesian Education University, Sumatra Institute of Technology, Sriwijaya University, Tadulako University, and several other PTN/PTS campuses.
In their writing, Tania et al. taking the case of Palu City as an example and explaining that Palu City, Central Sulawesi is one of the cities in Indonesia that is prone to disasters. This condition is strongly influenced by the active and complex regional tectonic setting of Sulawesi. The 7.4 magnitude earthquake on September 28 2018 is evidence of the potential for significant and destructive earthquake danger in Palu City. This incident was followed by a tsunami and liquefaction which are further dangers. The existence of the active Palu Koro fault line triggered an earthquake in 2018. Apart from earthquakes, Palu City is a lowland area which also has the potential for flooding. The potential for these disasters means that the people of Palu City need to increase their awareness and preparedness.
Then Tania et al. continued the explanation of the importance of strengthening disaster mitigation education and literacy to increase awareness and reduce disaster risk. One effort to strengthen disaster mitigation literacy and education is the use of computing and information technology in an application. The application is called TERRESAPP (disaster literate app). TERRESAPP is expected to become a digital medium for users (the public) to increase knowledge and understanding of potential hazards and mitigation efforts. The TERRESAPP application uses quantitative methods with a process of mapping hazard-prone zones by considering geographic data on areas that have the potential for disasters, such as the city of Palu.
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