JAKARTA: A reasonably robust earthquake late Sunday (Feb 25) shook components of Indonesia’s essential island of Java and the nation’s capital. There had been no instant reviews of harm or accidents.
The US Geological Survey mentioned that the shallow quake had a preliminary magnitude of 5.6 and that it occurred 37.2km beneath the floor. The epicenter was 80km west-southwest of Pelabuhanratu, a coastal city in West Java province.
Indonesia’s Meteorology, Climatology and Geophysical Agency measured its preliminary magnitude at 5.7, and at a depth of 10km. Variations in early measurements of quakes are frequent.
The quake was strongly felt in a number of cities and villages and precipitated some to panic, mentioned Daryono, who heads the Earthquake and Tsunami Center on the company.
Daryono, who like many Indonesians goes by a single title, mentioned there was no hazard of a tsunami, however warned of attainable aftershocks.
High-rises in Jakarta, the capital, swayed for a number of seconds, even two-story houses shook strongly in West Java provincial capital Bandung, and in Jakarta’s satellite tv for pc cities of Bogor and Bekasi.
Earthquakes happen often throughout the sprawling archipelago nation, nevertheless it’s unusual for them to be felt in Jakarta.
Indonesia, a seismically energetic archipelago of 270 million folks, is vulnerable to seismic upheaval due to its location on main geological faults referred to as the Pacific “Ring of Fire”.
A magnitude 5.6 earthquake final yr killed at the least 602 folks in West Java’s Cianjur metropolis. It was the deadliest in Indonesia since a 2018 quake and tsunami in Sulawesi killed greater than 4,300 folks.
In 2004, an especially highly effective Indian Ocean quake set off a tsunami that killed greater than 230,000 folks in a dozen international locations, most of them in Indonesia’s Aceh province.
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