REPUBLIKA.CO.ID, JAKARTA -- The Indonesian National Disaster Mitigation Agency (BNPB) and the Japanese Earthquake Prediction Research Centre (EPRC) are seeking to cooperate to increase the capacity of early detection system of earthquakes in Indonesia.

"The technology (which will be used in the system) will be a combination of sophisticated technologies, such as satellites, radars, GPS sensors, and other supporting devices such as electromagnetic wave detectors," Chief of the BNPB Data and Information Center and Public Relations Sutopo Purwo Nugroho said in a written statement released on Thursday.

BNPB will also team up with the Meteorology, Climatology and Geophysics Agency, Geo-spatial Information Board (BIG), the Agency for the Assessment and Application of Technology, institutes of higher learning, and other agencies to explore the development of earthquake-predicting technology,, he remarked.

The technology will help to provide a variety of data such as the height of water surface. The data will be obtained from the satellites owned by the US, Russia, Germany, and Japan.

The data will later be processed and analyzed by means of supercomputer artificial intelligence. 

Earthquake detection will be developed by EPRC. The system will enable the agency to predict earthquakes and subsequent tsunamis more appropriately, he noted.

He expressed hope that the development of the technology will lead to the creation of International Surface Artificial Intelligence Communicator. This way, anyone who lives in a disaster-prone area will receive information on the potential threat of earthquake through e-mail, among others.

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