Saturday, June 29, 2013

Two villages in Madura threatened ambles into the ground

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Two villages in Pamekasan, Madura, East Java sinkhole prone due to mining practices bricks made by residents. The mining has resulted in soil conditions become vacant and forming a tunnel. 

"It is based on the results of the survey agencies, after some time ago there was a land cracks and subsidence at the mine site in Pamekasan bricks," said Achmad Syafii Pamekasan Regent, in Pamekasan, as quoted by Reuters on Saturday (29/6). 


According Syafii, land on two sinkhole-prone villages, each village and village Grujugan ban in the District of Prohibition. "We've asked relevant agencies to do more research, and assesses the likelihood that will happen due to mining bricks in the densely populated township location," he said again. 


In the mining village of Ban subdistrict Grujugan bricks made of local residents in the hamlet Pancor. At that location about 30 units of sinkhole homes threatened, because in it hollow, due to excavation brick. 


"The place was originally a small excavation. But inside that 'it like a tunnel," said District Public Relations staff Prohibition, Sunairi. 


Similar conditions occurred in the village of Ban in District Prohibition. Section of Natural Resources estimates Pamekasan regency, tunnels in the soil due to excavation brick by the people, under the district office until Prohibition. 


On Friday (21/6) around 04.30 pm last 500 meters of the ground suddenly cracks and subsidence in Hamlet Hamlet Pancor approximately 7 kilometers to the east of City Pamekasan. Ground cracking and subsidence to a depth of between 10 to 15 meters. Two-unit houses around the scene also cracked and split into two. Both the house was owned Fathorrosi and Mat Salah, a resident of Hamlet Pancor. 


There were no fatalities in this incident. However, while the losses estimated at hundreds of million rupiah. The earliest known land subsidence and cracks it is the former brick quarry.
Locals said, almost all the houses belonging to the building in the village is above the brick pits. "So we are all under house perforated like a cave, because the stone-brick had been dug," said one of the residents in the village, Suhri. 


Cases of land subsidence that occurred in the hamlet Pancor was not the first time. Earlier on June 14, 2013, three heads of households (HH) Hamlet Village Taretah Palengaan Palengaan Power District in Pamekasan forced to flee their homes where land subsidence stay. 


Land subsidence previously also been reported in two villages in Sumenep, so the local district government to evacuate residents around the scene to a safer place.
 

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