The Indonesian government is planning to tighten housing construction standards nationwide in an effort to reduce the severe consequences of potential megathrust earthquakes, as per Public Housing and Settlements Ministry.
Ranked among the top 35 countries for natural disaster risk, Indonesia is actively preparing for potential megathrust earthquakes that could trigger devastating tsunamis. In September of last year, the country’s Meteorology, Climatology, and Geophysics Agency announced that megathrust earthquakes are likely to occur in two zones: the Sunda Strait and around the Mentawai-Siberut islands.
Both regions are known as earthquake-prone areas…