JAKARTA, Indonesia — An earthquake shook Indonesia’s primary island of Java on Monday, killing at the least 46 individuals, damaging dozens of buildings and sending residents into the capital’s streets for security.
The U.S. Geological Survey mentioned the magnitude 5.6 quake was centered within the Cianjur area in West Java province at a depth of 6.2 miles.
“There are 46 lifeless individuals on the Cianjur regional hospital and round 700 injured individuals. Many had been harm as a result of they had been hit by collapsed buildings,” Nationwide Catastrophe Mitigation Company chief Suharyanto mentioned.
A hospital employee carries an earthquake sufferer on a gurney outdoors a hospital in Cianjur, West Java, Indonesia, on Nov. 21, 2022.
Municipality officers evacuate their injured colleague following the earthquake in Cianjur, Indonesia, on Nov. 21, 2022.
A number of landslides had been reported round Cianjur. Dozens of buildings had been broken, together with an Islamic boarding college, a hospital and different public amenities, the company mentioned.
Data was nonetheless being collected concerning the extent of casualties and harm, it mentioned in a press release.
The quake was felt strongly within the better Jakarta space. Excessive rises within the capital swayed and a few had been evacuated.
“The quake felt so sturdy. My colleagues and I made a decision to get out of our workplace on the ninth flooring utilizing the emergency stairs,” mentioned Vidi Primadhania, an worker in South Jakarta.
Earthquakes happen ceaselessly throughout the sprawling archipelago nation, however it's unusual for them to be felt in Jakarta.
The nation of greater than 270 million individuals is ceaselessly struck by earthquakes, volcanic eruptions and tsunamis due to its location on the “Ring of Hearth,” an arc of volcanoes and fault traces within the Pacific Basin.
In February, a magnitude 6.2 earthquake killed at the least 25 individuals and injured greater than 460 in West Sumatra province. In January 2021, a magnitude 6.2 earthquake killed greater than 100 individuals and injured practically 6,500 in West Sulawesi province.
A strong Indian Ocean quake and tsunami in 2004 killed practically 230,000 individuals in a dozen international locations, most of them in Indonesia.
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