Understanding and Awareness of Undergraduate Physics Student in Earthquake Phenomena in Indonesia: A Response of a Series Earthquakes on July 5-7, 2020 in Java

Earthquakes are a natural disaster that often occurs in Indonesia. This is due to geographic location and very active tectonic conditions. Indonesia experienced both small and large-scale earthquakes which sometimes accompanied by tsunami waves. One of the earthquakes occurred on the island of Java on July 5-7 in succession. From this phenomenon, researchers conducted research that aims to determine the attention or awareness of physics students on the earthquake phenomenon on 5-7 July 2020, to find out students 'knowledge about the Earthquake Disaster and to find out physics students' understanding of the Causes of Earthquakes on 5-7 July 2020. This research used the questionnaire method and interview. The respondents in this research were 62 physics students at the State University of Surabaya. The results showed that the dominant response was 61.3% or as many as 38 physics students knew about the earthquake but paid less attention. Meanwhile, physics students 'understanding of the Earthquake Disaster was included in the intelligible category, and physics students' understanding of the Causes of the Earthquake on July 7, 2020, obtained the most dominant results, 29% answered that it was caused by the subduction activity of the Indo-Austrian plate. So, it can be concluded that the understanding and awareness of undergraduate physics students in the earthquake phenomenon in Indonesia is still lacking. Therefore, physics students still need to be given in-depth understanding and literacy about the earthquakes.