With the aim of preparing the public to face potential disaster, BMKG along with LIPI created a song on mitigation efforts called "Mitigasi Gempa Bumi" (Earthquake Mitigation) in 2016.

Kids across the region got a jolt, a literal one, yesterday afternoon that had parents asking questions many of us had not expected to face. Terrorism questions, maybe, but explaining an earthquake?

It's a children's book called Earthquake Surprise. Author Linda Salisbury lives near Mineral. To write her book, she interviewed area kids about what the quake felt like.