Earthquake in Indonesia: more than 40 dead and 700 injured

The earthquake hit the city of Cianjur, about 75 km southeast of the capital, Jakarta, at a depth of 10 km.

One earthquake A magnitude 5.6 struck Indonesia’s West Java province on Monday, killing 46 people, the national disaster agency said, as rescue workers and authorities worked to determine the full extent of the damage.

The quake hit the city of Cianjur, about 75km southeast of the capital, Jakarta, at a depth of 10km, the Geophysical and Meteorological Agency (BMKG) said, adding there was no chance of one tsunami.

The head of the disaster relief agency (BNPB) told a press conference that 46 people were killed and up to 700 were injured.

Herman Suherman, a government official from Cianjur, told the media that some residents were trapped in the rubble of the collapsed buildings. The Metro TV news channel showed what appeared to be hundreds of victims being treated in a hospital parking lot.

Several houses and an Islamic college were damaged, while electricity in the area went out, disrupting communications, according to the disaster agency.

Footage from Metro TV showed some buildings in Cianjur reduced almost entirely to rubble, with residents huddled outside.

Muchlis, who was in Cianjur when the earthquake hit, said he felt “a big jolt” and the walls and ceiling of his office were damaged.

“I was very shocked. I was afraid there was going to be another earthquake,” Muchlis told Metro TV, adding that people were running away from home in panic.

25 aftershocks were recorded in the two hours following the earthquake, the BMKG said, adding that there is a risk of landslides, especially in the event of heavy rains.

The earthquake was felt across Jakarta, shaking buildings and furniture, and some people left their offices in the central business district, witnesses told Reuters.

Indonesia is located on the so-called Pacific Ring of Fire, a seismically very active area where different plates of the earth’s crust meet, causing earthquakes and volcanic eruptions.

In 2004, a magnitude 9.1 earthquake on the northern Indonesian island of Sumatra triggered a tsunami that struck 14 countries, killing 226,000 people along the Indian Ocean coast, more than half of them in Indonesia.

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