Gustalika, Usman, and Bahtiar/Jurnal Pertahanan Vol. 8 No. 2 (2022) pp. 265-274 265 Jurnal Pertahanan Media Informasi tentang Kajian dan Strategi Pertahanan yang Mengedepankan Identity, Nationalism dan Integrity e-ISSN: 2549-9459 http://jurnal.idu.ac.id/index.php/DefenseJournal APPLICATION DEVELOPMENT OF EARTHQUAKES DISASTER PREPAREDNESS FOR CHILDREN Muhamad Azrino Gustalika Faculty of Informatics, Institut Teknologi Telkom Purwokerto DI Panjaitan Street No 128, Karangreja, Purwokerto, West Java, Indonesia 53147 azrino@ittelkom-pwt.ac.id Muhammad Lulu Latif Usman Faculty of Informatics, Institut Teknologi Telkom Purwokerto DI Panjaitan Street No 128, Karangreja, Purwokerto, West Java, Indonesia 53147 lulu@ittelkom-pwt.ac.id Arief Rais Bahtiar Faculty of Informatics, Institut Teknologi Telkom Purwokerto DI Panjaitan Street No 128, Karangreja, Purwokerto, West Java, Indonesia 53147 ariefbahtiar@ittelkom-pwt.ac.id Article Info Article history: Received : June 11, 2022 Revised : August 29, 2022 Accepted : August 30, 2022 Keywords: Application Development, Childhood, Disaster Preparedness, Earthquake, Learning Media DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.33172/jp.v 8i2.1723 Abstract Indonesia is a country in the ring of fire and one of the most disaster-prone countries on the planet. As a result of these characteristics, Indonesia is vulnerable to earthquakes at any time. For the children, the earthquake was a traumatic experience. They were overcome with panic and dread. The victims of earthquakes and tsunamis are also susceptible to nightmares related to the natural disasters they have witnessed. As a result, there is a need for early childhood learning development media to deal with earthquakes, one of which is an android application. This program is designed for early childhood earthquakes and children’s attempts to comprehend earthquakes. For media development, this study uses the System Development Life Cycle method with Waterfall methodology and BlackBox testing. The results of the application test using BlackBox when generating all scenarios were successfully executed according to the expected results using three different device brands, including Xiaomi, Asus, and Samsung. © 2022 Published by Indonesia Defense University INTRODUCTION Indonesia is a country prone to natural disasters due to geological and meteorological factors. Indonesia is at the confluence of three structural plates on Earth, which the Eurasian Plate, Australia, India, and the Pacific Ocean. This causes frequent earthquakes (Irawan, Subiakto, &