Indonesia Geol9

 Indonesia is located on the western side of the ring of fire  and is home to 4 plate boundaries . The surrounding plates include the Eurasian, Australian, Philippine, and the Pacific plates. The Convergent plate boundaries run south under Sumatra and Java in the west, through the middle of the archipelago, and along the north of West Papua New Guinea to the east.     In the west where the Eurasian and Australian plates meet is a subduction plate boundary, the Australian plate sides beneath the Eurasian plate at the  Sunda/Java trench . On the eastern side of Indonesia within the intersection of the Australian, Eurasian, and Philippine plates, the convergence is divided within an belt of microplates ( a small tectonic plate or plates that exist within a larger tectonic plates boundaries). The microplates create  various types of faults including arc-continent collision, subduction, strike-slip, thrust, and extensional faulting.  These faults...

Jakarta, capital of Indonesia Indonesia is located in the Indian and Pacific oceans off the coast of southeast Asia. It is referred to as a archipelago and consists of 17,500 islands, 7,000 of those islands are uninhabited. It is the  largest country in southeast Asia, sharing borders  with  Malaysia and Papua New Guinea.  Flag of Indonesia The islands of Indonesia have a diverse environment ranging from forested volcanic mountains, costal plains, alluvial swamps, shallow seas and coral reefs, it surrounds the intersection of three pieces of the earths crust. Holding a estimated population of 284,698,000 people, Indonesia is the fourth most populated country in the world.    The difference between hazards, disasters, and catastrophes:   Hazards are a natural process or event that is a possible threat to human life and property Disasters are a hazardous event that occurs over a limited time span in a defined area, where one of the following occurs,...