Only 86 of 213 House Republicans Attended Zelensky's Speech at US Congress – Reports

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Only 86 of 213 House Republicans attended Volodymyr Zelensky’s address to a joint meeting of the US Congress, a US newspaper reported.

On Wednesday, Zelensky visited Washington to meet with US President Joe Biden and appeal to Congress for further security assistance for Ukraine.

According to the newspaper, the goal of Zelensky's visit was to secure support from Republicans as they are set to take control of the House next month.

Over a third of House members had active letters to vote by proxy on Wednesday, with many worrying about weather-related travel disruptions just before Christmas, the report said.

Even though Republican supporters of aiding Ukraine welcomed Zelensky’s speech, critics of this aid showed little openness to changing their minds even following the Ukrainian leader's address, the report said.

Prior to the speech, Republican Rep. Thomas Massie wrote on social media that he is in Washington but "will not be attending the speech of the Ukrainian lobbyist."

Rep. Warren Davidson, in turn, doubted that Zelensky should be speaking from the House floor. The United States "should be focused on trying to contain the war, not expand the war," the lawmaker argued.

Some Republicans, however, have been demanding more transparency from the government when it comes to helping Ukraine. “Sadly, what I didn’t hear tonight was a clear explanation of where the first $50 billion we sent to support their efforts went,” Congresswoman Lauren Boebert, who attended Zelensky’s speech, said in a video message on Twitter. She said that she would “not support sending additional money to this war” until an audit was completed.

Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene, who spearheaded the bill to audit aid to Ukraine, was among those who ditched Zelensky’s address. “The American taxpayers are literally paying to prop up many countries all over the world in foreign aid, but America is virtually crumbling before our eyes,” Greene tweeted on Wednesday. She added that families in her district were struggling with growing food prices while the US was concerned with sending funds to Ukraine.

Meanwhile, Representative Chip Roy described Zelensky’s speech as “more of the theater” used by the Democrats to convince voters that the funds slated for Ukraine were “just going to be magically created out of thin air.”

On Tuesday, Congress rolled out a spending bill containing more than $44 billion worth of aid to Ukraine. But Republicans calculated that the money set aside for Kiev exceeded $47 billion, according to the New York Times.

The Pentagon has unveiled an additional $1.85 billion aid package for Ukraine, which includes the Patriot air defense missile systems, armored vehicles, and grenade launchers, as well as artillery and tank rounds. Russia has repeatedly said that foreign weapons would not change the course of the conflict and would only cause more deaths in Ukraine.

Among the biggest critics of Zelensky were Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) who tweeted that he would not attend the speech of a "Ukrainian lobbyist." Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA), who also did not attend Congress, tweeted before the speech that global foreign aid is like Americans being "raped everyday at the hands of their own elected leaders."

According to the Hill pool, only 86 of 213 House Republicans attended the speech Wednesday evening. More than a third of House members had active letters to vote by proxy on Wednesday, with many worrying about weather disrupting travel just before Christmas.

Republican skepticism of and resistance to Ukraine funding is layered. Some members oppose aid altogether based on an “America First” or anti-war philosophy. Others support more military aid but less economic and humanitarian aid, and still others believe the U.S.-Mexico border should be prioritized more.

Ukraine’s Accession to NATO Would Become Another Step to Confrontation With Russia: Macron

French President Emmanuel Macron said on Thursday that Ukraine’s accession to NATO would be perceived by Russia as yet another step towards confrontation, even though the country’s admission into NATO was not guaranteed.

"Accession of Ukraine to NATO will be perceived by Russia as something confrontational... Regardless of whether Ukraine will join NATO, and this is not the most likely scenario, or not, it must be given security guarantees," Macron said in an interview with the Monde newspaper. He noted that the security architecture in Europe must include guarantees not only for Ukraine, but also for Moldova, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia and, eventually, Belarus.

"We can’t think about the security of this zone through the prism of NATO only," he said.

NATO members supported Ukraine and Georgia's early admission into NATO at the 2008 Bucharest Summit. In June 2022, at the summit in Brussels they reiterated their commitment, however no deadline was suggested.

In December 2021, Russia proposed draft agreements on security guarantees for NATO and the United States, requesting that the alliance would not expand eastward and will not incorporate Ukraine and other post-Soviet countries. On January 2022, the US and NATO officially rejected Russia's proposal, stressing that the alliance would not change its stance on the right of sovereign nations to join the bloc. Following this deadlock, Russia launched a military operation in Ukraine in February.

The offensive comes as Donbass militia units and regular Russian army formations continue a grueling effort to push heavily entrenched Ukrainian forces out of the region.

Donetsk People’s Militia units have shelled the positions of Ukrainian forces outside the settlement of New York, a Sputnik correspondent embedded with the forces has reported.

“At the moment armored personnel carriers and infantry fighting vehicles have been detected in the area, an APC has been destroyed. At the moment, they’re trying to evacuate,” the commander said.

The People’s Militia also indicated that Ukrainian ultranationalist detachments appear to have set up blocking detachments to try to prevent regular Ukrainian army troops from falling back – a tactic common to notorious neo-Nazi militias such as the Azov Regiment.

Video shows DPR troops preparing camouflaged howitzers for fire, arming, aiming and firing at enemy positions.

New York adalah pemukiman perkotaan kecil yang terletak di utara-tengah Donetsk. Kota yang berpenduduk sekitar 9.700 jiwa ini menerima nama bergaya Amerika pada tahun 1840-an setelah dihuni oleh sekelompok orang Mennonit yang diundang ke Donbass oleh Catherine yang Agung dari Rusia. Pemukiman itu berganti nama menjadi Novgorodskoye pada tahun 1951. Pada tahun 2021, parlemen Ukraina mengesahkan undang-undang untuk mengganti nama pemukiman kembali ke New York.

The settlement has been situated near the frontline of fierce fighting between Ukrainian and DPR militia since 2014.

After liberating most of Lugansk in the summer, Russian and Donbass People’s Militia forces have concentrated on attempting to dislodge Ukrainian forces from Donetsk. The Ukrainian military spent years building entrenchments and fortifications in the region, and has placed artillery there, using it to launch indiscriminate artillery strikes against the city of Donetsk and other settlements. Hundreds of civilians have been killed and injured in these attacks.

Putin: Kiev Deliberately Strikes Residential Areas of Donetsk, Targeting Civilians

Kiev conducts strikes against residential areas of Donetsk, targeting civilians, while no foreign media and human rights activists say anything about it, Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Tuesday.

"As for these attacks, I understand that the strikes of Ukraine military directly hit residential areas of Donetsk... These are civilians [that are targeted]... No foreign media, nor any human rights organizations is commenting on this," Putin said at a meeting with the acting head of the Donetsk People's Republic (DPR), Denis Pushilin.

Pushilin, in turn, appealed to Putin with a request to strengthen the republic with modern air defense systems against the background of increased Ukrainian shelling.

More statements by Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu:

• Russian forces continue to inflict precision strikes on military command systems, military-industrial complexes, and related facilities in Ukraine;



• Russian Armed Forces take comprehensive measures to prevent civilian deaths in Ukraine;



• Total of 27 countries have already spent $97 billion on arms supplies to Ukraine;



• NATO officers, artillerymen, and other specialists, more than 500 NATO satellites are working for Kiev;



• Total silence of Western media about war crimes of Ukrainian military is cynical

Polda Jabar Bakal Sikat Preman yang Ganggu Wisatawan Saat Libur Nataru

Polda Jabar dan aparat gabungan melakukan apel siaga untuk melaksanakan Operasi Lilin Lodaya dalam rangka pengamanan Natal dan Tahun Baru. (Foto: Sandi/Jabarekspres)

Polda Jabar akan menindak tegas premanisme di tempat wisata, khususnya selama libur Natal 2022 dan Tahun Baru 2023. Polisi bakal menyiapkan kantong parkir di kawasan wisata di Jawa Barat yang masih minim lahan parkir. Hal itu dilakukan untuk mengantisipasi kemacetan saat libur Natal dan Tahun Baru 2023.

Karenanya selama libur Natal dan Tahun Baru 2023 personel polisi di daerah ini diperintahkan mengamankan objek Natal dan berbagai tempat wisata.

"Saya perintakan Pak Kapolres, Kapolsek, Pak Kasatlantas untuk menyiapkan kantong-kantong parkir. Khususnya di lokasi wisata yang tempat parkirnya tidak memadai, tidak seimbang dengan jumlah kunjungannya," kata Irjen Pols Suntana saat meninjau Pos Pelayanan di Padalarang, Bandung Barat pada hari Kamis, 22/12/2022.

Dikatakannya, pihaknya sudah memetakan kawasan wisata di Jawa Barat yang kerap ramai dikunjungi pelancong namun belum memiliki tempat parkir yang ideal untuk menampung kendaraan.

Di antaranya di kawasan Puncak, Bogor hingga Lembang, Bandung Barat. Kondisi itu dikhawatirkan nantinya kendaraan wisatawan parkir liar di badan jalan sehingga akan berdampak terhadap arus lalu lintas.

"Ada tempat wisata yang tempat parkirnya memadai sehingga pengunjung bisa memarkirkan kendaraannya di dalam. Tapi ada juga tempat tempat wisata yang tempat parkirnya tidak memadai," ungkap Kapolda Jabar.

Selain untuk meminimalisir kemacetan, kata Suntana, kantomg parkir di kawasan wisata juga dilakukan untuk mencegah adanya parkir liar yang mematok harga yang tidak wajar.

"Dan yang paling saya khawatirkan pengunjung wisata yang menggunakan mobil itu akan masuk ke lingkungan-lingkungan masyarakat. Masyarakat terganggu dan akhrinya terjadi pungutan parkir yang melebihi di luar kewajaran," sebut dia.

Berdasarkan informasi yang diterimaditerima dari Persatuan Hotel dan Restoran (PHRI), ungkap Suntana, Jawa Barat diperkirakan akan didatangi sekitar 1,3 juta wisatawan pada libur Natal dan Tahun Baru.

Untuk mengantisipasi membludaknya pengunjung, pihaknya meminta pengelola wisata agar tidak menerima kunjungan melebihi kapasitas.

"Kita instruksikan juga ke (pengelola) wisata tidak menerima pengunjung melebihi kapasitas di lokasi wisata, apalagi sekarang sudah dibebaskan juga. Buat semuanya nyaman dan tidak berdesakan," imbuh Suntana.

"Apabila ada tindakan premanisme yang melaksanakan aksinya dengan alasan apa pun, kami akan lakukan tindakan tegas," pungkasnya.

"Kami ingatkan kepada para preman untuk tidak melakukan aksinya. Kami akan tindak tegas," kata Kapolda Jawa Barat Irjen Pol Suntana usai Apel Gelar Pasukan Operasi Lilin 2022 di Lapangan Gasibu, Kota Bandung, hari Kamis, 22/12/2022.

Ia juga meminta masyarakat agar melaporkan jika ada premanisme di destinasi wisata yang dikunjungi karena sudah dijamin tidak ada ruang bagi aksi preman di di daerah ini.

"Apabila ada tindakan premanisme yang melaksanakan aksinya dengan alasan apa pun, kami akan lakukan tindakan tegas," katanya seperti dilansirkan Antara.

Selain itu, kata dia, pihaknya akan mengamankan jalur alternatif maupun jalur tol yang berpotensi mengalami peningkatan volume kendaraan pada libur Natal dan Tahun Baru 2023.

Nantinya, kata dia, para personel polisi bakal digeser ke setiap titik jalur alternatif maupun jalur tol saat Malam Misa Natal hingga Tahun Baru 2023.

"Personel sudah dibagi sedemikian rupa secara dinamis untuk mengantisipasi berbagai gangguan," kata dia

Zelensky-Biden talks prove Ukraine, US not interested in peace — Foreign Ministry

Russian Foreign Ministry
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The Ukrainian president touched down in Washington on Wednesday for talks with President Joe Biden, and an address before Congress, amid jitters in the White House about Republican grumbling about the 'blank check' of US assistance to Ukraine.

Ukrainian President Zelensky's visit to the US confirms Washington's plans to continue using Kiev as a proxy for an indirect war against Russia, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov has indicated.

"It shows that the United States continues its line of a de facto and indirect fight against Russia to the last Ukrainian," Peskov said, speaking to journalists on Thursday.

Peskov expressed regret that the trip did not see any sincere calls for peace, nor make any mention of the suffering of civilians in the Donbass.

"...We can state with regret that neither President Biden nor President Zelensky uttered even a few words which could be read as a potential willingness to listen to Russia's concerns," the Kremlin spokesman said. "Not a single word was heard from Mr. Zelensky about the continued barbaric shelling of residential buildings in the settlements of the Donbass...No real calls for peace, not for the camera, but real ones, were made."

At his joint press conference with Biden on Wednesday, Zelensky said that "there can't be any just peace" in Ukraine "in the war that was imposed on us" by Russian "non-humans."

Zelensky's comments marked a soft retort of his US host, who told reporters just several minutes prior that Kiev was "open to a just peace" with Moscow if the conditions were right.

The Ukrainian president urged Washington to up its military and financial support to Kiev, including Patriot air defense systems.

Biden promised his guest that the US would stay "with Ukraine as long as there is a Ukraine."

Zelensky followed up on his talks with Biden with an address before a joint session of Congress, urging the American people to provide more weaponry and to slap more sanctions on Russia. "We have artillery, yes - thank you," he said. "Is it enough? Honestly, not really. To make sure the Russians completely pull out, more shells and cannons are needed," he urged.

The Ukrainian president's Washington visit comes amid growing fears in the White House and the president's party that a substantial number of Republicans may no longer be ready to write any more 'blank checks' to Ukraine when the new Congress convenes in January. US assistance to Kiev is already on track to topping $100 billion in 2022, on top of billions more delivered to the country since the 2014 US-backed coup. Many Washington insiders remain confident that the flow of cash and weapons to Ukraine will continue into the new year, with mostly pro-MAGA Republican skeptics of further assistance making up a minority in their own party, while neocon war hawks like Mitch McConnell, Mitt Romney, Lindsey Graham promise to vote with Democrats in new outlays.

The talks between Ukrainian president Vladimir Zelensky and US leader Joe Biden in Washington showed that Ukraine and the US seek not peace but further hostilities, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said during a briefing Thursday.

"The talks in Washington showed that neither Ukraine nor the United States seeks peace. They are simply determined to continue fighting," the diplomat said.

"Have you heard anything about negotiations, about any kind of communication with Russia? Of course not. Zelensky publicly spoke about our country in a boorish manner - he cannot in principle do otherwise; even his ‘masters’ do not dare to do that. They have made some attempts, remarks, but they have not sunk that low yet," Zakharova said.

"Apparently, Zelensky has nothing to say, being rude is the only thing he can do," the diplomat believes.

Dua Kecamatan di Kota Bogor Masuk Zona Hitam Peredaran Napza

Kasat Narkoba Polresta Bogor Kota, Agus Susanto.

Dua kecamatan di Kota Bogor masuk zona hitam peredaran napza, diantaranya Kecamatan Bogor Tengah dam Timur.

Dari catatan polisi, kedua kecamatan itu dijadikan target pengedar lantaran banyak spot pemakai narkoba dan banyak tempat hiburan malam (THM).

Dua faktor itu dimanfaatkan para pengedar untuk melakukan transaksi narkotika.

Kepala Satuan Reserse Narkoba (Kasat Narkoba), Kompol Agus Susanto mebeberkan, tak hanya dua kecamatan di Kota Bogor masuk zona hitam peredaran napza.

Dia menyebutkan, hampir semua kecamatan terdata pernah mengalami kasus penyelahgunaan narkotikan, namun angkanya tidak separah di Kota Bogor masuk zona hitam peredaran napza.

“Misalkan minggu pertama kecamatan ini, minggu kedua pasti kecamatan lain,” ucap Agus.

Kepolisian juga setiap bulannya, mendapati kasus pengedaran dan pemakaian narkotika.

“Zona pertama ini zona Kecamatan Bogor Tengah, itu jadi titik paling banyak yang jadikan peredaran gelap narkoba,” ungkap Agus.

Kemudian yang kedua, lanjut Agus kecamatan Bogor Timur, ketiga Tanah Sareal, ke empat Barat dan selatan.

“Nah itu jadi sementara ini hasil dari ungkapan 2022 itu yang paling banyak diliat dari TKP itu di Bogor Tengah seperti itu,” ucap Agus soal dua kecamatan di Kota Bogor masuk zona hitam peredaran napza.

Chinese Ambassador: Trade Between China, Russia Maintains Strong Upward Trend Amid Ongoing Cooperations

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A strong upward trend continues in Russia-China trade, Chinese Ambassador to Russia Zhang Hanhui said in an interview with Sputnik.

"Thanks to the joint efforts of both sides, bilateral trade has maintained a strong upward trend, and this is why it has reached another record high," Zhang said.

The ambassador said that in 2022, business cooperation between Russia and China has reached a new level.

"In the first 11 months of this year, the total volume of Sino-Russian trade reached $172.41 billion, up 32% year-on-year, already surpassing last year's annual figure of $146.87 billion and undoubtedly set to reach a new record high," he said.

The volume of Chinese exports to Russia amounted to $67.34 billion, an increase of 13.4 percent, and China's imports from Russia amounted to $105.07 billion, an increase of 47.5 percent, Zhang said. He said that in 2022, China and Russia overcame a number of unfavorable factors in their trade and economic cooperation.

In particular, in February, the parties signed a road map for the high-quality development of Sino-Russian trade in goods and services, which outlines the path to achieve the set goals in bilateral trade.

The leaders of Russia and China earlier set the goal to double bilateral trade, bringing it from $100 billion a year to $200 billion by 2024. The $100 billion mark was reached in 2018.

After talks between the two countries' leaders in Beijing on February 4, Chinese President Xi Jinping outlined a new goal to increase Russia-China trade to $250 billion a year.

Russia, China Sign Agreement on Joint Lunar Exploration: Roscosmos Head

An intergovernmental agreement between Russia and China on the creation of the international scientific lunar station has already been signed, the head of the Russian space agency Roscosmos, Yuri Borisov, said on Wednesday.

"We will move on to the next phase, which is the construction of a future lunar base, possibly, and most likely, in close contact with our Chinese partners. As you know, a corresponding memorandum was signed in 2021, and just recently an agreement was signed with the Chinese side on the joint work in this area," Borisov said.

Russia and China signed a memorandum of understanding on cooperation in the creation of the International Lunar Science Station (ILSS) in March 2021. In December of this year, Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin said that an intergovernmental agreement between Russia and China on the creation of the International Lunar Science Station was prepared for signing.

Japan's Lawmaker Calls on US to Recognize Atomic Bombings of Hiroshima, Nagasaki a Mistake

Muneo Suzuki, a member of Japan's upper house and the chair of the New Party Daichi, on Wednesday called on the United States to honestly declare that the atomic bombings of the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki at the end of World War II were a mistake.

"Even though 77 years have passed since the end of the war, the US, which dropped the atomic bombs, has never apologized or asked for forgiveness. It is the US that speaks loudly of 'democracy, human rights, and freedom' about the actions of other countries. So, why not honestly tell Japan and the world what the US has done?" Suzuki said on the personal website, commenting on Japan's media reports about a possible visit by US President Joe Biden to Nagasaki in May 2023.

The lawmaker believes that Biden's visit to the bombed city would be the right decision.

"During (the visit), he [Biden] should say what he would really like to say. I wish he would tell the world, not to mention Nagasaki and Hiroshima, the following: 'The use (of nuclear weapons) is impossible; the use of atomic bombs was a mistake," he said.

Japan will chair the G7 multilateral platform in 2023. The top-level G7 summit will be held in Hiroshima from May 19-21, 2023. The Group of Seven largest economies includes Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the United Kingdom, and the US.

Japanese media reported earlier this week that Biden is expected to visit the Japanese city of Nagasaki during his trip to the summit of G7 world leaders in Japan in May 2023. Should the trip to Nagasaki be confirmed, it would be the first time a sitting US president visit the southwestern Japanese city hit with an atomic bomb in the final days of World War II, Japanese news agency reported, adding that Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida would likely accompany Biden during the visit.

In May 2016, former US President Barack Obama paid a historic visit to Hiroshima, making him the first US president to the city since World War II.

In August, Japan marked 77 years since a US B-29 bomber dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, killing about 140,000 people. The second atomic bomb strike on the Japanese city of Nagasaki three days later killed 70,000 people.

The atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki remain the only use of nuclear weapons for warfare in history.

The bombings caused Japan to declare surrender on August 14, 1945, bringing World War II to an end.

Kuningan Gempa M 4,3

Badan Meteorologi Klimatologi, dan Geofisika (BMKG) menyampaikan bahwa gempa bumi yang mengguncang Kabupaten Kuningan, Jawa Barat, pada hari Kamis pagi, 22/12/2022, pukul 04.18 WIB itu memiliki magnitudo 4,3. Episenter terletak pada koordinat 6,99 LS dan 108,48 BT, atau tepatnya berlokasi di darat pada jarak 1 km barat daya Kabupaten Kuningan, Jawa Barat pada kedalaman 5 km.

BMKG menyampaikan dampak gempa bumi yang digambarkan oleh peta tingkat guncangan (shakemap) BMKG dan berdasarkan laporan dari masyarakat, gempa bumi ini dirasakan di wilayah Kuningan dengan skala intensitas III MMI (getaran dirasakan nyata dalam rumah, terasa getaran seakan-akan ada truk berlalu).

Gempa juga terasa di Cirebon, Majalengka dengan Skala Intensitas II - III MMI (getaran dirasakan oleh beberapa orang, benda-benda ringan yang digantung bergoyang, getaran dirasakan nyata dalam rumah. Terasa getaran seakan-akan ada truk berlalu).

"Dengan memperhatikan lokasi episenter dan kedalaman hiposenternya, gempa bumi yang terjadi merupakan jenis gempa bumi kerak dangkal (shallow crustal earthquake) akibat aktivitas sesar aktif," katanya.

"Dalam beberapa menit pertama setelah gempa, parameter gempa dapat berubah dan boleh jadi belum akurat, kecuali telah dianalisis ulang seismolog," lanjut BMKG.

Guncangan gempa tidak menyebabkan tsunami

Sebelumnya, rentetan gempa bumi bermagnitudo besar mengguncang Jawa, seperti di Cianjur hingga muncul kabar potensi gempa bumi megathrust di selatan Jawa.

Dikutip dari Kompas.com, daerah di selatan Jawa bagian barat dan tenggara Sumatera berpotensi alami gempa bumi hingga M 8,9.

Tak hanya itu, dalam pemodelan menunjukkan gempa di zona tersebut bisa memicu tsunami hingga 34 meter, melebihi ketinggian tsunami Aceh 2004.

Hal tersebut berdasarkan penelitian terbaru dan diungkapkan Pepen Supendi dari Badan Meteorologi, Klimatologi, dan Geofisika ( BMKG ) dan peneliti postdoctoral di University of Cambridge.

”Hasil penelitian kami tentang potensi gempa dan tsunami akibat megathrust di selatan Jawa (bagian) barat dan tenggara Sumatera baru saja diterbitkan di jurnal Natural Hazards,” kata Pepen yang menjadi penulis pertama laporan ilmiah ini, dikutip dari Kompas.id, Selasa, 01/11/2022.

Laporan ilmiah ini juga ditulis Sri Widiyantoro dari Institut Teknologi Bandung (ITB); Nicholas Rawlinson dari Department of Earth Sciences-University of Cambridge; Tatok Yatimantoro, Daryono, serta Dwikorita Karnawati dari BMKG; Abdul Muhari dari Badan Nasional Penanggulangan Bencana (BNPB); Rahma Hanifa dari Badan Riset dan Inovasi Nasional (BRIN); serta sejumlah peneliti lain.

Berdasarkan survei lapangan yang dilaporkan Jose C Borrero dalam Seismological Research Letters (2005), ketinggian tsunami yang diamati untuk gempa bumi berkekuatan M 9,1 di Aceh pada 2004 berkisar 20-30 meter.

Ini berarti potensi tinggi tsunami maksimum yang disebabkan gempa di selatan Jawa bagian barat bisa lebih tinggi, sekalipun kekuatan gempanya sedikit lebih kecil.

Pepen mengatakan, magnitudo gempa hanyalah salah satu faktor dalam menentukan ketinggian tsunami maksimum.

”Tinggi tsunami bisa dipengaruhi batimetri dan kedekatannya dengan sumber gempa,” katanya.

Sedangkan ketinggian tsunami rata-rata di sepanjang pantai Sumatera dan pantai Jawa, menurut penelitian Pepen dan tim ini, masing-masing adalah 11,8 meter dan 10,6 meter, hasil yang menggabungkan efek dari sesar belakang.

Temuan ini melengkapi kajian sebelumnya yang ditulis Sri Widiyantoro dan tim di jurnal Nature(2020).