Earthquake in Jakarta

On Wednesday the 2nd of September 2009 there was an Earthquake in Jakarta Indonesia.

The earthquake was rated 7.4 on the rickets scale.

A few hours before hand there was a weired thing that happened a snake at lunch time so noon came out in front of 367 students and was just strolling more like slithering along the ground and then got into a hole in the tree and as Veterinarians and zoologist's have proven that animals can sense earthquakes, tsunami's and bad storms witch is were the snake at lunch connects.



OK this School is huge and snakes are scared of humans so why would a meter long snake cross the lunch area with about 150 students in the lunch area and 300 around it well i think it leads to the earthquake.

The environment is always connected to thees natural disasters and all in a different way.

But what kills in earthquakes are man made. Like buildings they can collapse on and with people in it, Air cons they could fall on peoples heads and the list goes on.



Experiencing my first earthquake it was a bit frightening and weired at the same time. I would never had expected that I would be feeling a real life earthquake. When I was little I was a country girl and I never thought I would move to the city and I did I moved to Canberra from a tiny tiny town and then i moved to Indonesia which was not even in my mind i never thought of even moving overseas but I did and now i have experienced Bombings, My brother going through dengue fever, Earthquakes and the stress of moving away from my Family.

So we connect to the earth and environment we all live together and we all compact others lives.

Tiwan Storm

The Taiwan storm was a chance for us to learn in class about various things like what humans and the environment work. And how the environment affects our land when humans cant do anything. I'm going to tell you that the environment is much stronger than you think and is so much more capable than just keeping us alive.

This Photo here is what destruction the typhoon caused in Taiwan. You might ask what is the difference in a hurricane and typhoon well that's one of the thing i will answer. A hurricane is a big swirl of warm and cold wind off the ocean which Australia's coast gets and and typhoons are a combination of lots and lots of rain and wind. Japan often gets them.

The typhoon made us think about mud slides, floods, hurricanes and many more things but they all relate to one thing the ENVIRONMENT! The environment has many natural disaster's like droughts, floods, bush fires, hurricanes, typhoons and tsunamies and now we know that the enviroment is cabable of deaths, injuries and broken hearts.

People who lived in Taiwan at the bottom of the mountain had no idea how a mud slide could start. The earth is suck to the mountain but when there is 2 meters of rain the water lifts the earth of the mountain and down to those farms and villages.

The Taiwan tragedy may be sad but it is a learning experience for a lot of us.