More and more homes were built of brick and concrete, and while the facade may have appeared modern, underneath, the construction was poorly held together, the study said. However, increased deforestation and the high cost of timber led people to choose alternative materials, according to a 2009 study about post-disaster reconstruction in Indonesia from The Architectural Science Association. These were considered to be sustainable homes, and largely durable in the event of an earthquake. In Indonesia, houses were traditionally constructed from organic building materials including timber, bamboo and thatched grasses, owing to the hot and humid climate in the country. “Our whole family immediately ran out to save themselves.
“We all cried with emotion and happiness,” she said. “All the houses were covered with dirt and mud,” she said, adding that she was reunited with her family who survived the quake. But with roads completely blocked by landslides, it took her 24. The journey - about 65 kilometers (40 miles) - usually takes less than two hours. Others were killed in landslides.Ĭleo Gaida Salima said when she heard about the quake, she tried to phone her mother in Cugenang, Cianjur, but when she failed to answer, she decided to drive there from her home in Bandung by motorbike. Most of the people killed were crushed or trapped beneath debris, according to West Java’s governor, Ridwan Kamil. Photos showed broken scraps of metal, timber and bricks. The quake shook the foundations of buildings, causing the concrete structures to collapse and roofs to cave in.
A 6-year-old boy was pulled alive from the rubble of his home two days later, but many others weren’t so lucky. Of the 310 people killed in Monday’s quake, at least 100 were children, many of whom were in school when the quake struck.
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