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2018 Sulawesi earthquake and tsunami, the Glossary

On 28 September 2018, a shallow, large earthquake struck in the neck of the Minahasa Peninsula, Indonesia, with its epicentre located in the mountainous Donggala Regency, Central Sulawesi.^[1]

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Amran Sulaiman

Andi Amran Sulaiman (born 27 April 1968) is an Indonesian businessman and Minister of Agriculture, who has served under Joko Widodo's government from 27 October 2014 to 23 October 2019 and again since 25 October 2023.

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Anak Krakatoa

Anak Krakatoa (Anak Krakatau)English translation and common name: Child of Krakatoa is a volcanic island in Indonesia.

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Australia

Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation

The Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC), is the national broadcaster of Australia.

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Australian Plate

The Australian Plate is a major tectonic plate in the eastern and, largely, southern hemispheres.

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Base transceiver station

A base transceiver station (BTS) or a baseband unit (BBU) is a piece of equipment that facilitates wireless communication between user equipment (UE) and a network.

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Batik Air

PT Batik Air Indonesia, operating as Batik Air, is an Indonesian scheduled airline based at Soekarno–Hatta International Airport in Jakarta.

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BBC

The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is a British public service broadcaster headquartered at Broadcasting House in London, England.

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Bulog

BULOG Public Corporation (Perusahaan Umum BULOG), formerly the Indonesia Logistics Bureau (Badan Urusan Logistik) is a statutory corporation in Indonesia formed in service to food distribution and price control.

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Central Sulawesi

Central Sulawesi (Indonesian: Sulawesi Tengah) is a province of Indonesia located at the centre of the island of Sulawesi.

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COVID-19 pandemic in Indonesia

The COVID-19 pandemic in Indonesia is part of the worldwide pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2).

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Crisis in Venezuela

An ongoing socioeconomic and political crisis began in Venezuela during the presidency of Hugo Chávez and has worsened during the presidency of successor Nicolás Maduro.

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Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade

The Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) is the department of the Australian federal government responsible for foreign policy and relations, international aid (using the branding Australian Aid), consular services and trade and investment (including trade and investment promotion Austrade).

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Donggala Regency

Donggala Regency is a regency in the Central Sulawesi Province of Indonesia.

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Earthquake

An earthquakealso called a quake, tremor, or tembloris the shaking of the Earth's surface resulting from a sudden release of energy in the lithosphere that creates seismic waves.

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Earthquake rupture

In seismology, an earthquake rupture is the extent of slip that occurs during an earthquake in the Earth's crust.

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East Kalimantan

East Kalimantan (Indonesian) is a province of Indonesia.

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Epicenter

The epicenter, epicentre, or epicentrum in seismology is the point on the Earth's surface directly above a hypocenter or focus, the point where an earthquake or an underground explosion originates.

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European Commissioner

A European commissioner is a member of the 27-member European Commission.

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European Union

The European Union (EU) is a supranational political and economic union of member states that are located primarily in Europe.

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Fault (geology)

In geology, a fault is a planar fracture or discontinuity in a volume of rock across which there has been significant displacement as a result of rock-mass movements.

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Floating Mosque of Palu

The Floating Mosque of Palu, also known as Arqam Babu Rahman Mosque Tempo.

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Focal mechanism

The focal mechanism of an earthquake describes the deformation in the source region that generates the seismic waves.

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Foreshock

A foreshock is an earthquake that occurs before a larger seismic eventthe mainshockand is related to it in both time and space.

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Geodesy

Geodesy or geodetics is the science of measuring and representing the geometry, gravity, and spatial orientation of the Earth in temporally varying 3D.

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Hadi Tjahjanto

Air Chief Marshal (Ret.) Hadi Tjahjanto (born 8 November 1963) is the Coordinating Minister for Political, Legal, and Security Affairs under President Joko Widodo's Onward Indonesia Cabinet, replacing Mahfud MD due to his resignation.

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Indonesia

Indonesia, officially the Republic of Indonesia, is a country in Southeast Asia and Oceania between the Indian and Pacific oceans.

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International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement

The organized International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement is a humanitarian movement with approximately 16million volunteers, members, and staff worldwide.

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Joko Widodo

Joko Widodo (born Mulyono, 21 June 1961), popularly known as Jokowi, is an Indonesian politician and businessman who is the seventh president of Indonesia.

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Landslide

Landslides, also known as landslips, or rockslides, are several forms of mass wasting that may include a wide range of ground movements, such as rockfalls, mudflows, shallow or deep-seated slope failures and debris flows.

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List of earthquakes in 2018

This is a list of earthquakes in 2018. 2018 Sulawesi earthquake and tsunami and list of earthquakes in 2018 are 2018 earthquakes.

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List of earthquakes in Indonesia

This is an incomplete list of more recent recorded major earthquakes that have occurred within the boundaries of Indonesia. 2018 Sulawesi earthquake and tsunami and list of earthquakes in Indonesia are earthquakes in Indonesia and tsunamis in Indonesia.

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Lockheed C-130 Hercules

The Lockheed C-130 Hercules is an American four-engine turboprop military transport aircraft designed and built by Lockheed (now Lockheed Martin).

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Longki Djanggola

Longki Djanggola is an Indonesian politician and currently the governor of Central Sulawesi.

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Makassar

Makassar, formerly Ujung Pandang, is the capital of the Indonesian province of South Sulawesi.

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Makassar Strait

Makassar Strait is a strait between the islands of Borneo and Sulawesi in Indonesia.

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Malaysia

Malaysia is a country in Southeast Asia.

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Malaysian ringgit

The Malaysian ringgit (plural: ringgit; symbol: RM; currency code: MYR; Malay name: Ringgit Malaysia; formerly the Malaysian dollar) is the currency of Malaysia.

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Mamuju (city)

Mamuju is the capital of the Indonesian province of West Sulawesi.

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Meteorology, Climatology, and Geophysical Agency

Meteorology, Climatology, and Geophysical Agency (Badan Meteorologi, Klimatologi, dan Geofisika, abbreviated BMKG) is an Indonesian non-departmental government agency for meteorology, climatology, and geophysics.

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Minahasa Peninsula

The Minahasa Peninsula, also spelled Minahassa, is one of the four principal peninsulas on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi.

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Ministry of Foreign Affairs (South Korea)

South Korea's Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA) is in charge of the country's foreign relations, as well as handling matters related to overseas Korean nationals. It was established on 17 July 1948. Its main office is located in the MOFA Building in Jongno District, Seoul. The ministry previously had its headquarters in a facility in Doryeom-dong in Jongno District.

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Ministry of Research and Technology

Ministry of Research and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia (abbreviated as Kemenristek, or RISTEK-BRIN on its logo) was a government ministry that has the task of conducting affairs in the field of research, science and technology to assist the President of Indonesia in carrying out state.

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Moment magnitude scale

The moment magnitude scale (MMS; denoted explicitly with M or or Mwg, and generally implied with use of a single M for magnitude) is a measure of an earthquake's magnitude ("size" or strength) based on its seismic moment.

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Mudflow

A mudflow, also known as mudslide or mud flow, is a form of mass wasting involving fast-moving flow of debris and dirt that has become liquified by the addition of water.

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Mutiara SIS Al-Jufrie Airport

Mutiara SIS Al-Jufrie Airport, formerly Masovu Airport, is an airport near Palu, from DAFIF (effective October 2006) the capital city of the province of Central Sulawesi on the island of Sulawesi in Indonesia. 2018 Sulawesi earthquake and tsunami and Mutiara SIS Al-Jufrie Airport are Palu.

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National Agency for Disaster Countermeasure

The National Agency for Disaster Countermeasure (Disaster Countermeasure National Agency), abbreviated as BNPB, is the Indonesian board for natural disaster affairs.

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National Fire Agency

The National Fire Agency of the Ministry of the Interior (NFA) is a statutory agency under the Ministry of the Interior of the Republic of China (Taiwan).

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New Zealand

New Zealand (Aotearoa) is an island country in the southwestern Pacific Ocean.

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Ng Eng Hen

Ng Eng Hen (p, Hinghwa Romanized: Ńg Ṳ̂ng-héng; born 10 December 1958) is a Singaporean politician and former oncologist who has been serving as Minister for Defence since 2011.

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Nicolás Maduro

Nicolás Maduro Moros (born 23 November 1962) is a Venezuelan politician who has served as the 53rd President of Venezuela since 2013.

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Pacific Plate

The Pacific Plate is an oceanic tectonic plate that lies beneath the Pacific Ocean.

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Palu

Palu, officially known as the City of Palu (Indonesian: Kota Palu), is the capital and largest city of Central Sulawesi Province in Indonesia.

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Palu IV Bridge

The Palu IV Bridge (Palu 4 Bridge) was an Indonesian suspension bridge that was located in city of Palu in the Indonesian province of Central Sulawesi. 2018 Sulawesi earthquake and tsunami and Palu IV Bridge are Palu.

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Palu-Koro Fault

The Palu-Koro Fault or Palu-Koro Fault System is a major active NNW-SSE trending left-lateral strike-slip fault zone on the island of Sulawesi in Indonesia. 2018 Sulawesi earthquake and tsunami and Palu-Koro Fault are supershear earthquakes.

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Peak ground acceleration

Peak ground acceleration (PGA) is equal to the maximum ground acceleration that occurred during earthquake shaking at a location.

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Perusahaan Listrik Negara

PT Perusahaan Listrik Negara (Persero) (abbreviated as PLN) is an Indonesian government-owned corporation which has a monopoly on electric power distribution in Indonesia and generates the majority of the country's electrical power, producing 176.4 TWh in 2015.

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Petobo

Petobo is an abandoned urban village (kelurahan) in South Palu district, Palu, Central Sulawesi, Indonesia. 2018 Sulawesi earthquake and tsunami and Petobo are Palu.

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Philippine Sea Plate

The Philippine Sea Plate or the Philippine Plate is a tectonic plate comprising oceanic lithosphere that lies beneath the Philippine Sea, to the east of the Philippines.

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Poso

Poso (Old Spelling: Posso) is the administrative capital of Poso Regency, Indonesia.

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Pull-apart basin

In geology, a basin is a region where subsidence generates accommodation space for the deposition of sediments.

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Rendang

Rendang is a Minangkabau dish.

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Republic of Singapore Air Force

The Republic of Singapore Air Force (RSAF) is the aerial service branch of the Singapore Armed Forces (SAF) responsible for controlling and defending the airspace of the country, and providing air support to the Army and Navy.

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Royal Air Force

The Royal Air Force (RAF) is the air and space force of the United Kingdom, British Overseas Territories and Crown Dependencies.

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S wave

In seismology and other areas involving elastic waves, S waves, secondary waves, or shear waves (sometimes called elastic S waves) are a type of elastic wave and are one of the two main types of elastic body waves, so named because they move through the body of an object, unlike surface waves.

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Samarinda

Samarinda is the capital city of the Indonesian province of East Kalimantan on the island of Borneo.

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Satellite geodesy

Satellite geodesy is geodesy by means of artificial satellites—the measurement of the form and dimensions of Earth, the location of objects on its surface and the figure of the Earth's gravity field by means of artificial satellite techniques.

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Seismic magnitude scales

Seismic magnitude scales are used to describe the overall strength or "size" of an earthquake.

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Sigi Regency

Sigi Regency is a regency of Central Sulawesi, Indonesia.

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Singapore

Singapore, officially the Republic of Singapore, is an island country and city-state in maritime Southeast Asia.

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SMART (Malaysia)

The Special Malaysian Disaster Assistance and Rescue Team (SMART;, Jawi) is a disaster relief and rescue task force established under the National Security Council based on the approval of the Cabinet on 18 May 1994.

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SMS

Short Message Service, commonly abbreviated as SMS, is a text messaging service component of most telephone, Internet and mobile device systems.

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Soil liquefaction

Soil liquefaction occurs when a cohesionless saturated or partially saturated soil substantially loses strength and stiffness in response to an applied stress such as shaking during an earthquake or other sudden change in stress condition, in which material that is ordinarily a solid behaves like a liquid.

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South Korea

South Korea, officially the Republic of Korea (ROK), is a country in East Asia.

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Springer Science+Business Media, commonly known as Springer, is a German multinational publishing company of books, e-books and peer-reviewed journals in science, humanities, technical and medical (STM) publishing.

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Sri Mulyani

Sri Mulyani Indrawati (born 26 August 1962) is an Indonesian economist who has been Minister of Finance of Indonesia since 2016; previously she served in the same post from 2005 to 2010.

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Sulawesi

Sulawesi, also known as Celebes, is an island in Indonesia.

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Sunda Plate

The Sunda Plate is a minor tectonic plate straddling the Equator in the Eastern Hemisphere on which the majority of Southeast Asia is located.

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Supershear earthquake

In seismology, a supershear earthquake is an earthquake in which the propagation of the rupture along the fault surface occurs at speeds in excess of the seismic shear wave (S-wave) velocity. 2018 Sulawesi earthquake and tsunami and supershear earthquake are strike-slip earthquakes and supershear earthquakes.

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Sutopo Purwo Nugroho

Sutopo Purwo Nugroho (7 October 1969 – 7 July 2019) was an Indonesian civil servant and academic who worked at the Indonesian National Board for Disaster Management as its head of public relations.

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Switzerland

Switzerland, officially the Swiss Confederation, is a landlocked country located in west-central Europe.

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Taiwan

Taiwan, officially the Republic of China (ROC), is a country in East Asia.

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Tawau

Tawau, formerly known as Tawao, is the capital of the Tawau District in Sabah, Malaysia.

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Teleseism

A teleseism is a tremor caused by an earthquake that is very far away (from the Ancient Greek τῆλε) from where it is recorded.

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The Guardian

The Guardian is a British daily newspaper.

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The Salvation Army

The Salvation Army (TSA) is a Protestant Christian church and an international charitable organization headquartered in London, England.

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Time in Indonesia

The Republic of Indonesia, a country located in Southeast Asia has three time zones.

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Tsunami warning system

A tsunami warning system (TWS) is used to detect tsunamis in advance and issue the warnings to prevent loss of life and damage to property.

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Tzu Chi

The Buddhist Tzu Chi Charity Foundation (reason|l.

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United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain, is a country in Northwestern Europe, off the coast of the continental mainland.

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United Nations

The United Nations (UN) is a diplomatic and political international organization whose stated purposes are to maintain international peace and security, develop friendly relations among nations, achieve international cooperation, and serve as a centre for harmonizing the actions of nations.

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United States

The United States of America (USA or U.S.A.), commonly known as the United States (US or U.S.) or America, is a country primarily located in North America.

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United States Agency for International Development

The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) is an independent agency of the United States government that is primarily responsible for administering civilian foreign aid and development assistance.

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United States Geological Survey

The United States Geological Survey (USGS), founded as the Geological Survey, is an agency of the United States government whose work spans the disciplines of biology, geography, geology, and hydrology.

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Venezuela

Venezuela, officially the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, is a country on the northern coast of South America, consisting of a continental landmass and many islands and islets in the Caribbean Sea.

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Vietnam

Vietnam, officially the (SRV), is a country at the eastern edge of mainland Southeast Asia, with an area of about and a population of over 100 million, making it the world's fifteenth-most populous country.

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Wan Azizah Wan Ismail

Wan Azizah binti Wan Ismail (Jawi: وان عزيزة بنت وان إسماعيل; born 3 December 1952) is a Malaysian politician who has served as Spouse of the Prime Minister of Malaysia as the wife of Anwar Ibrahim, Member of Parliament (MP) for Bandar Tun Razak since November 2022 and 1st President of the Pakatan Harapan (PH) coalition since July 2017.

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Winston Peters

Winston Raymond Peters (born 11 April 1945) is a New Zealand politician who has been the leader of New Zealand First since it was founded in 1993.

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2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami

On 26 December 2004, at 07:58:53 local time (UTC+7), a major earthquake with a magnitude of 9.2–9.3 struck with an epicentre off the west coast of northern Sumatra, Indonesia. 2018 Sulawesi earthquake and tsunami and 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami are tsunamis in Indonesia.

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2006 Yogyakarta earthquake

The 2006 Yogyakarta earthquake (also known as the Bantul earthquake) occurred at with a moment magnitude of 6.4 and a maximum MSK intensity of VIII (Damaging). 2018 Sulawesi earthquake and tsunami and 2006 Yogyakarta earthquake are strike-slip earthquakes.

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2018 Asian Para Games opening and closing ceremonies

The 2018 Asian Para Games opening ceremony was held on Saturday, 6 October 2018 at the Gelora Bung Karno Main Stadium in Jakarta, Indonesia.

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5 August 2018 Lombok earthquake

On 5 August 2018, a destructive and shallow earthquake measuring 6.9 (7.0 according to BMKG) struck the island of Lombok, Indonesia. 2018 Sulawesi earthquake and tsunami and 5 August 2018 Lombok earthquake are 2018 disasters in Indonesia, 2018 earthquakes, earthquakes in Indonesia and Landslides in Indonesia.

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