After the Tsunami of December, 2004, Indonesia was hit by another severe natural disaster. In the morning of Mai 27, 2006, an earthquake of magnitude 6.2 led to heavy destructions in the region of Yogyakarta on the Indonesian island of Java. Up to now, more than 5,000 bodies were found and 20,000 injuries were counted (May 30, 2006). Some 200,000 people lost their homes. 4,000 buildings collapsed, 3,000 of them in the village of Bantul south of the city Yogyakarta alone. The region of the earthquake is situated only a few kilometers south of the vulcano Mt. Merapi which had shown increased activity for several weeks and has augmented the amount of its ash spills again after the earthquake.

Helmholtz-EOS activities relating to this event:

		Indonesia: German Task Force Earthquakes analyses Java quake May 31, 2006 - 15:00 UTC The German Task Force Earthquakes delegates a scientific team to Indonesia in order to analyse the Java earthquake. Today, three scientists of the GeoForschungsZentrum Potsdam (GFZ) and one of the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich head for the island.  More ...
		Earthquake in Indonesia - map products of DLR/ZKI May 31, 2006 - 15:00 UTC In the scope of the International Charter "Space and Major Disasters", DLR is currently working on map products based on high resolution satellite data which show the disaster region.  More...