In order to investigate the applicability of the asperity model to intraplate earthquakes we have studied the rupture process of the great 1977 Sumba normal-faulting earthquake (Mw=8.2-8.3), one of the largest earthquakes since 1963. This event has been variously interpreted as a plate detachment event (i.e., rupture through the entire lithosphere) or a shallow plate-bending event. We have anal...

This article tells the story of the sacred place named Mata Loko (“River’s Source”) in Karendi on the western end of the island of Sumba. This ethnographic case of an eastern Indonesian society where the traditional religion of Marapu persists sheds light on questions of how local belief systems are part of environmental adaptations. The use of sacred resources is restricted by the belief that ...

This article aims to analyze the struggle of Marapu dwellers in Sumba, NTT obtaining citizenship identity with a religious frame Durkheim perspective between ‘sakral’and 'profane'. The problem be raised from this paper is how efforts Marapu, Sumba residents maintaining cultural amid dynamics obtain status Indonesia which not easy. There are many challenges that group needs face, such as discrim...

Milk urea nitrogen (MUN) of dairy cows was determined in relation to breed. A total of forty (40) Pabna and red Chittagong dairy cattle each of twenty (20) were selected to know the milk composition, nutritional status and milk urea nitrogen. Live weight of Pabna Cattle (187±14 kg) was higher than that of red Chittagong cattle (174±4 kg). In Pabna cattle milk yield (4.94 kg), minerals (0.15%) a...

Context Formulating rations with high energy and protein feeds such as cassava tuber gliricidia, is an important strategy to increase liveweight gain (LWG) of bulls improve profitability smallholder farmers in Indonesia. Aims Two on-farm experiments were conducted evaluate the effect increasing supplementation level a mixture (Manihot esculenta) whole root powder fresh gliricidia (Gliricidia se...

The transition along the strike of Sunda subduction zone, from oceanic in west to continental Australian lithosphere east is envisioned as one canonical examples structural changes that take place within an overriding plate when a wedge enters zone. Yet, along-strike offset trench toward margin represents response opposite predictions numerical models. To understand this paradox, we analyse mor...