Residents Of 3 Villages In Kintamani Bangli Isolated Due To The Bali Earthquake

Residents and officers walk near a house damaged by a landslide caused by an earthquake in the Trunyan area, Kintamani, Bangli, Bali, Saturday, October 16 (Photo: Naufal Fikri Yusuf/Antara)

JAKARTA - Residents of three villages in Kintamani District, Bangli Regency, Bali, were isolated because the only land route connecting their area to Bangli City was buried by landslides caused by an earthquake with a magnitude of 4.8 on Saturday morning. The three villages are Trunyan Village, Abangsongan Village and Abang Batuwall Village which are inhabited by hundreds of families (KK). There are quite a lot of materials, such as sand and large rocks," said Head of the Bangli BPBD Emergency and Logistics Section, Ketut Agus Sutapa in Bangli, as reported by Antara, Saturday, October 16. as well as soil conditions that are still unstable so that it can endanger the safety of the team who will clean up "Earlier I was at the location with my friends to clean the path, but suddenly there was material and large chunks of rock from above so that personnel and heavy equipment that had been prepared could not continue cleaning," he said.

As long as the land route is closed by landslides, residents of three isolated villages when they are going to carry out activities and travel to Bangli City can use water transportation via Lake Batur. "Hopefully, tomorrow morning the weather and soil conditions will be stable so we can work optimally and In the event of the 4.8 magnitude earthquake that occurred on land at a distance of eight kilometers northwest of Karangasem with a depth of 10 km on Saturday, October 16 at 04.18 WITA, as many as two residents in Trunyan Village, Bangli died as a result of being buried by landslides due to the earthquake. In addition, according to data from the Bali Provincial Disaster Management Agency, there was also one person who died from the Karangasem Regency area. Ketut Agus Sutapa added, although until Saturday In the evening in the Kintamani area, no aftershocks were felt, but he asked the entire community to remain vigilant. "We urge the public to remain alert to all potential disasters, not only earthquakes but other disasters as well. Operationally, we also did not evacuate residents centrally in evacuation sites because after the earthquake this morning they evacuated independently in safer places," he said.