SIEMEULUE - Siemeulue Island, Aceh, including one earthquake-prone areas in Indonesia. In addition to tsunami early warning tool, local knowledge is often a local reference to escape during natural disasters such as earthquakes and tsunamis.
Kaman, Siemelue Island fisherman, said the earthquake and tsunami is not foreign to local residents. The outer islands in the province of Aceh is a subscription earthquake and tsunami because it is the confluence of three major tectonic plates, the Eurasia, Australia and the Pacific Ocean.
Before it was discovered early tsunami detection devices, Siemeulue residents believe some of these symptoms as signs of impending natural disasters. Animals in the wild panic of unusual natural phenomena is one of the trusted people as a sign of an impending earthquake and tsunami.
So is the behavior of animals that are not as commonly believed is also often a sign of impending disaster. "Then the smell of salt water on the increasingly oppressive and fish floundering on the beach," said Kaman in Aceh on Saturday (14/04/2012).
He added that the existence of a straight elongated clouds in the sky are also believed to be local residents as a natural phenomenon that gives the information of the coming threat of tsunami, or familiarly known as smong citizens.
Residents who find an unusual natural phenomena directly inform his colleagues to be alert. Residents were immediately echoed the call to prayer in mosques and in sequence circulating information about the tsunami threat to the public directly to the rescue with a refuge in the highlands.
Local knowledge is hereditary affiliations of Siemeulue after massive tsunami waves nearly drowned the island in 1907 Siemeulue ago.
