Earlier today there was a 6.1 magnitude earthquake in Indonesia the epicenter is the link below.
http://www.openstreetmap.org/?mlat=4.6978&mlon=96.6871&zoom=16&layers=M Although 6.1 is reasonably powerful, Indonesia experiences many earthquakes and so the damage from this one is somewhat moderate. Current reports are between 20 and 100 fatalities so far with some people displaced from collapsed buildings. The response will likely be local and not involve the international community, but we have started mapping roads in the areas just as a precaution, and we continue to monitor the situation. Earthquakes such as this can be the precursor to a later, much larger, aftershock. So a bit of mapping now might be very useful if a later such earthquake does occur. Right now the focus is on roads, and bridges. Some building tracing of key buildings (large buildings, mosques, etc) is useful, but complete building coverage is probably overkill. The larger town of Takengon to the east of the epicenter suffered minimal damage, but this is the nearest larger town, so it may be worth tracing streets there if this becomes a disaster response headquarters. http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=4.6234&lon=96.8518&zoom=14&layers=M -AndrewBuck
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