Earthquake of magnitude 6.5 rocks Indonesia’s Java island | World News
A magnitude-6.5 earthquake struck off the coast of Indonesia’s Java island on Saturday, the nation’s Meteorology, Climatology, and Geophysical Company (BMKG) reported.
The quake, which the USA Geological Survey recorded at a magnitude of 6.1, was felt in capital Jakarta — the place folks had been pressured to evacuate buildings — and in close by Bandung.
“I screamed to my spouse and children to inform them to get out of the home,” Iman Krisnawan, a 47-year-old resident of Bandung, advised AFP.
There was no tsunami alert, based on BMKG. The USGS reported the depth at 68.3 kilometres (42 miles).
Indonesia, an enormous archipelago nation, experiences frequent earthquakes as a result of its place on the Pacific “Ring of Hearth”, an arc of intense seismic exercise the place tectonic plates collide that stretches from Japan by Southeast Asia and throughout the Pacific basin.
A magnitude-6.2 quake that shook Sulawesi island in January 2021 killed greater than 100 folks and left hundreds homeless.
In 2018, a magnitude-7.5 quake and subsequent tsunami in Palu on Sulawesi killed greater than 2,200 folks.
And in 2004, a magnitude-9.1 quake struck Aceh province, inflicting a tsunami and killing greater than 170,000 folks in Indonesia.
