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  2. National Agency for Disaster Countermeasure - Wikipedia

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    The National Agency for Disaster Countermeasure ( Indonesian: Badan Nasional Penanggulangan Bencana, lit. 'National Disaster Management Agency'), abbreviated as BNPB, is the Indonesian board for natural disaster affairs. It was established in 2008 to replace the National Disaster Management Coordinating Board ( Badan Koordinasi Nasional ...

  3. Natural disaster - Wikipedia

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    A natural disaster is the highly harmful impact on a society or community following a natural hazard event. Examples of natural hazard events include floods, droughts, earthquakes, tropical cyclones, volcanic activity, wildfires. [1] A natural disaster can cause loss of life or damage property, and typically leaves economic damage in its wake.

  4. Bandung Institute of Technology - Wikipedia

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    Mascot. Ganesha. Website. www.itb.ac.id. The Bandung Institute of Technology ( Indonesian: Institut Teknologi Bandung, abbreviated as ITB) is a national research university located in Bandung, Indonesia. It has produced many notable leaders in science, engineering, politics, business, academia, and culture.

  5. List of natural disasters in Indonesia - Wikipedia

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    A landslide at a resort in Pacet near Mojokerto in East Java in 2002 when over 30 people died. [8] A landslide in Agam Regency in West Sumatra in January 2013 which left 20 people dead. A series of landslides and floods in Manado in North Sulawesi in February 2013 which caused much damage and killed at least 17 people.

  6. Simulation - Wikipedia

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    v. t. e. A simulation is an imitative representation of a process or system that could exist in the real world. [1] [2] [3] In this broad sense, simulation can often be used interchangeably with model. [2] Sometimes a clear distinction between the two terms is made, in which simulations require the use of models; the model represents the key ...

  7. Simulated reality - Wikipedia

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    Simulated reality. A simulated reality is an approximation of reality created in a simulation, usually in a set of circumstances in which something is engineered to appear real when it is not. Most concepts invoking a simulated reality relate to some form of computer simulation, whether through the creation of a virtual reality that creates ...

  8. Simulation video game - Wikipedia

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    Simulation video games are a diverse super-category of video games, generally designed to closely simulate real world activities. [1] A simulation game attempts to copy various activities from real life in the form of a game for various purposes such as training, analysis, prediction, or entertainment. Usually there are no strictly defined ...

  9. 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami - Wikipedia

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    Casualties. 227,898 dead [5] [6] On 26 December 2004, at 07:58:53 local time ( UTC+7 ), a major earthquake with a magnitude of 9.2–9.3 Mw struck with an epicentre off the west coast of northern Sumatra, Indonesia. The undersea megathrust earthquake, known by the scientific community as the Sumatra–Andaman earthquake, [8] [9] was caused by a ...