Minggu, 25 Oktober 2009

What is Geology?

What is Geology? - What Does a Geologist Do?

Geology Definition


Geology is the study of the Earth, the materials of which it is made, the structure of those materials, and the processes acting upon them.
Some of them include material organism which have inhabited our planet.
The important to study in geology must followed the latest news about this teory of geology science because the study of structures, materials, processes, organisme, materials, and tectonics have changed over time following the developing of the electronical instrumental for collecting earth data (which mean hitech-instumental) and hitech modeling researches in laboratory.

Geologist Works

A Geologists learns and researchs to understand the history of our planet Earth (Geo). The better they can understand Earth’s history the better they can foresee how events and processes of the past might influence the future (The past is the key to the future Earth). In word in geologic law “The Present is the key to the past” .Here are some examples:

Geologists study earth processes: Many processes such as orogeneis (mountain forming process such collision and subduction which put up plate higher and form mountain row), landslides (land movement), earthquakes, floods and volcanic eruptions can be hazardous and harm people.
Geologists try to understand these processes well enough to avoid building important structures where they might be damaged including classifying zone of disaster to make amap guide of disaster zone. It will help many City and Area Planning for the future.

Geologists study earth materials: earth materials are used by people every day. They use oil , metals from mines, and water from underground. Geologists studies to locate rocks that contain important metals, plan the mines that produce them and Which methods more economic in used to remove the metals from the rocks. Of course this work including how to locate and produce oil, natural gas and ground water.

Geologists study earth history:

Study Earth History to learn and form a perfect teory of many schene structure which present shows us. Ofcourse the teory must proved with hight technology modeling to learned and proved the teory of the geology history. Many model such as real miniature modeling (including scalar component) and digital 3d modeling with data parameter helps to form the global of earth history, which is formed by many geology regional phenomenon.
Today geologist are concerned about climate change. Many geologists are working to learn about the past climates of earth and how they have changed across time which is connected with the earth outer core movement. This information is valuable to understand how our current climate is changing and what the results might be.

Geology as a Career:



To be a Geologist is a very interesting and rewarding career. Of course need four year training tobe a four-year college degree in geology. Pre-college students who are interested in becoming geologists should take a full curriculum of college preparatory courses, especially those in math, science, and writing. Courses related to computers, geography and communication are also valuable knowledge to be collected.
There are variety work and project need geologist, include: government planning agencies, natural resource companies, environmental consulting companies, government resources administration, non-profit organizations, and universities. For Geologists do a field work only part of the time after field the data and sample will be processed in laboratories, classrooms or offices. All geologists reports, do calculations, technic modeling and use computers.

Although a bachelor's degree is required for entry level employment,
many geologists earn master's and/or doctorate degrees to take a speciallity in geology science.A higher level of training, often in a geology specialty area such as paleontology, mineralogy, hydrology or volcanology. Advanced degrees will often qualify to be the geologist for supervisory positions, research assignments or teaching positions at the university level.

opportunities for geologists are very good if they are willing to move to a location where work is available.

Salary of Geologist


In Present day, Salary of geologist have recently ranged from $50,000 to $100,000 per year according to their experiences.

You Become a Geologist


If you are a pre-college student who’s willing to become a geologist, can prepare to become a geologist by doing well in all of your courses. Especially earth science and training is important, but other disciplines such as math, writing, language are used by every geologist during they everyday work.

Get in touch with the geology department, let them know you are interested and make arrangements to visit the campus. Don't be hesitant. Good schools and professors want to be contacted by interested students.

One of Oldest Geology Campus in Indonesia is Geology Departement in ITB (Institute Technology of Bandung / Bandung Institute of Technology) in Bandung City, West Java . The Study Geology Facilities in Bandung such as library, room laboratory, computer laboratory, studio, nature/field laboratory, equipment facility, and include one Indonesian museum of geology. . With Indonesia Island arc as they laboratory, probably you’ll become the next Indonesian International Expert Geologist.


Harlin Pasili Ansori

Sources :
Itb.ac.id or departemen Tehnik geologi ITB (Institut Teknologi Bandung)
geology.com
discovery chanel



video sources Geological Society of America

click to :
OCTOBER 2009 INTERNATIONAL EVENTS OF GEOLOGIST

Minggu, 18 Oktober 2009

September-October 2009 Large Earthquake in Indonesia Plus Field Important Information Map Equipment on This Area


  1. September-October 2009 Large Earthquake in Indonesia
  2. Plus Field Important Information Equipment on This Area
1. Large 7,6 SR Earthquake in West Sumatra Province Indonesia

A. News Source from ESDM News

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The Earthquake Disaster in Padang Indonesia at September 29th-30th 2009, has main earthquake 7,6 SR and the next following earthquake in 6,2 SR. As a Fact this earthquake didn't followed by a tsunami (overlarge wave) disaster.

From DESDM Institution announced this earthquake happened because subduction (in area of crash zone from two big plate tectonic) of Indonesian Sea Plate (Australian Plate) under Asian Plate which located along West Coast of Sumatra Island, according USGS it's in subduction zone between Australian Plate and Sunda Plate. (note this Formation of collide is Subduction Form because the two plate which is Sea Plate and Continent Plate, has a Large Differentiation of Density between them. The lower density plate later subducts under the higher density plate).

This Earthquake didnot have ability to produce Tsunami because the epicentre (earthquake source point) deep enought location, and as the result didn't produce Large Power to made a tsunami.

Information from Indonesian Meterolog, Climate and Geophysist Institution (BMKG), this earthquake appeared in afternoon (30/9), at 17:16:09 WIB in 7,6 Scala Richter (SR). Epicentre (earthquke source point) layed on coordinate 0.84 LS - 99.65 BT, 71 Km depth from water sea level, 57 Km far from South West Pariaman, Sumatera Barat. The Second (following) earthquake
appear 22 minutes later, on 17:38:52 WIB in 6,2 SR, Epicentre location on 72 LS - 99.94 BT, at 110 Km depth, 22 Km SouthWest Pariaman, Sumatera Barat.


Other Large Earthquke in September - October in Island Arc Java-Sumatra is on Sukabumi South Java and Later in Sunday October 17th 2009 at Ujung Kulon, Sunda Strait. Both of them caused by Tectonic Plate movement.

see more informations about West Padang Earthquake from The Field in:
http://www.theage.com.au/world/second-quake-hits-sumatra-as-death-toll-soars-20091001-gd43.html

B.USGS Report Padang earthquake

Earthquake Details

Magnitude7.6
Date-Time
Location 0.725°S, 99.856°E
Depth81 km (50.3 miles) set by location program
RegionSOUTHERN SUMATRA, INDONESIA
Distances60 km (35 miles) WNW of Padang, Sumatra, Indonesia
225 km (140 miles) SW of Pekanbaru, Sumatra, Indonesia
470 km (295 miles) SSW of KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia
975 km (600 miles) NW of JAKARTA, Java, Indonesia
Location Uncertaintyhorizontal +/- 4.2 km (2.6 miles); depth fixed by location program
ParametersNST=405, Nph=405, Dmin=534.3 km, Rmss=0.92 sec, Gp= 18°,
M-type=teleseismic moment magnitude (Mw), Version=A
Source
  • USGS NEIC (WDCS-D)
Event IDus2009mebz

From USGS Report (write as in original text) about Padang Earthquake September 30th 2009

Felt Reports

At least 1100 people were killed, 2181 were injured and thousands are still unaccounted for in the Padang area. More than 2650 buildings have been damaged in the area and landslides have disrupted power and communications. Felt (VII) at Padang. Widely felt throughout Sumatra and Java, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore and Thailand. A small local tsunami with wave heights of 27 centimeters (amplitude measured relative to normal sea level) was generated.

Tectonic Summary

The southern Sumatra earthquake of September 30, 2009 occurred as a result of oblique-thrust faulting near the subduction interface plate boundary between the Australian and Sunda plates. At the location of this earthquake, the Australian Plate moves north-northeast with respect to the Sunda plate at a velocity of approximately 60 mm/yr. On the basis of the currently available fault mechanism information and earthquake depth of 80 km, it is likely that this earthquake occurred within the subducting Australian Plate rather than on the plate interface itself. The recent earthquake was deeper than typical subduction thrust earthquakes that generally occur at depths less than 50 km. The subduction zone surrounding the immediate region of this event has not witnessed a megathrust earthquake in the recent past, rupturing last in an earthquake of M 8.5 or larger in 1797. Approximately 350 km to the south, a 250 km section of the plate boundary slipped during an Mw 8.4 earthquake in September 2007, while approximately 300 km to the north, a 350 km section slipped during the Mw 8.7 earthquake of March 2005. In early 2008, the plate boundary updip of today’s earthquake was active in a sequence of Mw 5-6 earthquakes. It is not clear how today’s earthquake is related to the sequence of megathrust subduction zone events on the shallower section of the plate boundary.



2. Important Maps to Equipt if you want to go to Padang Earthquake area in Indonesia

With the exception of public UN sources, reproduction or redistribution of the above text, in whole, part or in any form, requires the prior consent of the original source.

For Fund emergency Disaster conect to UNOCHA.

Your Important maps to equipt in Padang............

1. Map from reliefweb "The Temporary Map about region Damage because disaster in Padang Source Ocha, Reliefweb, and rovicky.wordpress.com and

2. Map from USG Humanitarian Assistance to Indonesia Earthquake, September 30th, 2009

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Small view

3. Indonesia: Population Map – Padang North [with building damages] (as of 01 Oct 2009)

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4. Potential Building Damage
Source(s):
- German Aerospace Center (DLR)
- International Charter Space and Major Disasters
Klick:
Potential Buiding Damage

5. Free Bakorsurtanal Earthquake Location Maps (Basic Maps of The Location)


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Reuter News about Medco Gas Production in South Sumatra 2009

Source: Reuters 10/13/2009, Location: Asia

Reuter News about Medco Gas Production in South Sumatra 2009


PT Medco Energi Internasional Indonesian an energy exploreris in talks to supply 50 million cubic feet per day of natural gas to PT PGN (Nation Gas Company Indonesia), anounced on Tuesday October 13th 2009.

The president director of Medco's unit Medco E&P Indonesia Mr. Budi Basuki, told the gas would be used by upstream operations of Chevron in Central Sumatra Regional Operation.

Chevron need from Medco Gas for supporting technology used to coax more oil from its Duri field, to increase production. This steamflood technology, can enhance recovery on oil fields where output is declining.

This Chevron Company already has a gas supplier witch is ConocoPhillips, but the gas volume from ConocoPhillips isn't enough to support its upstream project.

Basuki word to the press (reuter) "The deal is expected to supply 50 million cubic feet per day of gas with price around $4 per million British thermal unit. Medco will supply for three years,We will finalise the deal as soon as possible." Medco will supply the gas from its field in South Sumatra.".

BPMIGAS institution has previously said that Chevron produced around 300,000 barrels per day of crude from South Sumatran Duri and Minas fields in Indonesia.


List of October 2009 event for International Petroleum Oil

1. PetroChem Arabia 2009
Dhahran international exhibition center DIEC, El Dammam, Saudi Arabia 4-6 October 2009. Organized by BME Global Ltd.
2. 17th Kazakhstan International Oil&Gas Exhibition & Conference 2009
Atalent Exhibition Centre, Almaty, Kazakhstan, Kazakhstan 6-9 Oct 2009, Atalent Exhibition Centre, Almaty, Kazakhstan
3. Middle East Energy Security Forum (MEESEC 2009)
Dubai, United Arab Emirates 11-14 October 2009, organized by Fleming Gulf FZ
4. Human Capital Innovation in Oil and Gas & Perochemicals 2009
Cairo, Egypt 11-13 October 2009. Organized by Fleming Gulf FZ LLC
5. Carbon World Doha 2009
Marriott Hotel Doha, Qatar 14-15 October 2009. Oranized by Centre for Managament Technology
6. Shanghai International Petroleum Petrochemical SIPPE 2009
Shanghimart Expo, Shanghai, China 14-16 October 2009. Organized by AI Expo- Exhibition
7. Deepwater Southeast Asia Congress 2009
Sheraton Imperial, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia 15-16 October 2009. Organized by Neoventure Corporation.
8. CIPPE 2009 Shanghai
Shanghai Everbright Convention & Exhibition Centre, Shanghai, China 15-17 October 2009. Organized by Beijing zhenwei Exhibition Co. LTD.
9. Turkmenistan International Investment Forum 2009
Exhibition Palace "Sergi Koshgi" Ashgabat, Turkmenistan 15-17 October 2009. Organized by IC Energy Limited
10. Mega Machx 2009
Dhahran international exhibition center DIEC, Saudi Arabia 18-20 October 2009. Organized by BME Global Ltd.
11. China International Petroleum Equipment & Technology Exb CIPEE2009
Dongying Huanghe International Exhibition&Confeence Center Dongying, Shandong, China 18-20 Oct 2009. Organized by Beijing CEW International Fair Co., Ltd.
12. LNG TECH Global Summit 2009
Beurs-WTC Congress Center, Rotterdam, Netherlands/Holland 19-21 October 2009. Organized by World Trade Group.
13. Oil Gas Chemistry International trade show 2009
Samara, Russia 20-22 October 2009. Organized by Expo Volga.
14. The 4th International Energy Week
Moscow, Russia 26-27 October, 2009. Organized by ICC, Ltd
15. MENA Mining Congress 2009
Sheraton Bahrain Hotel, Manama, Bahrain 26-29 October 2009. Organized by Terrapinn Pte Ltd.
16. Offshore Middle East 2009
Bahrian International Exhibition Centre, Manama, Bahrain 27-29 October 2009. Organized by PennWell Corporation
17. Bioenergy Markets West Africa 2009
Accra, Ghana
18. 4th Mangystau Regional Oil, Gas and Infrastructure Exhibition 2009
Mangystau Regional Exhibition Centre. Aktau, Kazakhstan

Number 7 in South East Region.
list
source : www.gulfoilandgas.com