Indonesia sits on the Pacific Ring of Fire.
Indonesia is already having a pretty bad year. Below are the disasters that have hit Indonesia in the last few years -
March 6: An earthquake strikes Sumatra Island, killing at least 70 people and damaging hundreds of buildings.
- March 3: Landslides triggered by days of heavy rain kill at least 40 people in eastern Indonesia.
- Feb. 1: Rivers in the capital, Jakarta, burst their banks, submerging parts of the city in water up to 12 feet deep, killing 57 and displacing 450,000.
- Dec. 29, 2006: A ferry sinks in a storm, killing more than 400 people in the Java Sea.
- Dec. 23, 2006: Heavy rain touches off floods that kill more than 100 people and displace over 400,000 on Sumatra.
- July 17, 2006: An earthquake triggers a tsunami off Java island's southern coast, killing at least 600 people.
- June 19, 2006: Floods and mud flows kill up to 300 people in southern Sulawesi province.
- May 27, 2006: An earthquake in central Java kills at least 5,800 people and injures more than 36,000.
- May 2006: A series of explosions spew hot ash down the slopes of Mount Merapi, forcing 15,000 villagers to flee.
- May 2006: A mud eruption at a drilling shaft on Java displaces more than 11,000 people and inundates villages and factories, spewing a million oil drums of muck a day.
- Jan. 4, 2006: Some 200 people are killed in a landslide on Java.
- March 28, 2005: More than 900 people are killed and tens of thousands are left homeless when an earthquake hits Nias, Banyak and Simeulue islands off the coast of Sumatra.
- Dec. 26, 2004: An earthquake sets off a tsunami that kills more than 160,000 people in Indonesia, mostly in Aceh province on Sumatra.
Recent Indonesian quakes -
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