Earthquake of magnitude 5.6 leaves at least 46 dead in Indonesia - CNN

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At slightest 46 radical person died aft a 5.6-magnitude earthquake deed Indonesia’s West Java state connected Monday, according to the country’s National Agency for Disaster Management (BNPB).

A further 700 were near injured, according to Major General Suharyanto, caput of the BNPB.

The quake deed the Cianjur portion successful West Java state astatine a extent of 10 kilometers (6.2 miles), according to the United States Geological Survey (USGS).

Four schools and 52 houses collapsed oregon were severely damaged, according the BNPB section bureau successful the Cianjur region. A mosque and a infirmary were besides damaged, according to the office.

The BNPB said determination is nary hazard of a tsunami, Reuters reported.

Herman Suherman, a authorities authoritative successful Cianjur, told media that immoderate residents were trapped successful the rubble of collapsed buildings. News transmission Metro TV showed what appeared to beryllium hundreds of victims being treated successful a infirmary parking lot.

It said that an Islamic boarding schoolhouse was besides damaged, portion communications had been disrupted owed to powerfulness outages.

TV footage showed residents huddled extracurricular buildings astir wholly reduced to rubble, according to Reuters.

One, named lone arsenic Muchlis, said helium felt “a immense tremor” and the walls and ceiling of his bureau were damaged.

“I was precise shocked. I disquieted determination would beryllium different quake,” Muchlis told Metro TV.

The BMKG said warned of a information of landslides, peculiarly successful the lawsuit of dense rain, arsenic 25 aftershocks were recorded successful the 2 hours aft the quake.

Indonesia sits connected the “Ring of Fire,” a set astir the Pacific Ocean that sets disconnected predominant earthquakes and volcanic activity. One of the astir seismically progressive zones connected the planet, it stretches from Japan and Indonesia connected 1 broadside of the Pacific each the mode crossed to California and South America connected the other.

In 2004, a 9.1 magnitude quake disconnected Sumatra land successful bluish Indonesia triggered a tsunami that struck 14 countries, sidesplitting 226,000 radical on the Indian Ocean coastline, much than fractional of them successful Indonesia.