Indonesia earthquake kills over 160 people, may be deadliest in 2022 - The Washington Post

“The bulk who died were deed by buildings. Some were deed connected the head,” said Herman Suherman, caput of the Cianjur regency. “All you tin perceive present is ambulance sirens everywhere.”

More than 2,200 houses person been damaged, according to officials, with astir 13,000 radical displaced. According to the U.S. Geological Survey, the quake occurred astatine a extent of lone six miles (10 kilometers), making it much devastating.

Local tv footage showed scenes of chaos arsenic crowds of injured people, immoderate bandaged and bleeding, rushed to hospitals and clinics for treatment. Some were transported successful ambulances, but others, including young children, were brought successful connected motorcycles oregon carried successful by relatives, witnesses said.

Patients astatine Cianjur Hospital, immoderate connected stretchers, had to beryllium evacuated extracurricular for fearfulness that the gathering could collapse. Some members of the assemblage ran wrong to retrieve tables and different instrumentality to transportation the injured to harmless locations, locals said.

Ricky Susan, a section writer successful Cianjur, said helium was having java astatine a subject barracks erstwhile the quake struck. By the clip helium fled outside, the gathering down him was inactive shaking violently, and crossed the barracks, a minimart had been destroyed.

“I saw a radical of the minimarket employees lasting extracurricular the ruins, and they were each crying,” helium said. “They told maine that 1 of them didn’t marque it retired and was buried successful the rubble.”

Suharyanto, caput of the National Agency for Disaster Management, said the precedence was rescuing the injured and taking them for aesculapian treatment. Like galore Indonesians, helium goes by 1 name.

Access to the stricken portion is apt to beryllium an contented aft the quake, which appears to person importantly damaged infrastructure successful the area. Electricity and cellphone work were patchy successful parts of Cianjur.

Dwikorita Karnawati, caput of Indonesia’s Meteorological, Climatological and Geophysical Agency, said during a quality league that the earthquake caused a landslide connected the outskirts of Cianjur, cutting disconnected roadworthy entree from the neighboring Puncak Pass, a upland way successful West Java.

She added that 45 aftershocks were recorded, but nary tsunami informing was issued.

The quake was reportedly felt successful the neighboring cities of Sukabumi and Bandung. Residents successful the capital, Jakarta, astir 60 miles (100 kilometers) northwest of Cianjur, besides felt important shaking erstwhile the quake struck, and immoderate buildings were evacuated.

Indonesia is successful a seismic portion and often experiences earthquakes, which tin origin important casualties particularly erstwhile followed by tsunamis. In 2018, a 7.5-magnitude earthquake that was trailed by a tsunami successful the central land of Sulawesi killed much than 2,000 people, according to the United Nations. In 2009, a quake that struck southern Sumatra led to 1,117 deaths.

Indonesia besides often experiences utmost upwind events and different earthy disasters adjacent the extremity of the year, erstwhile it is deed by dense monsoon rains, which tin origin floods and mudslides.

“We request to stay vigilant,” Ridwan Kamil, politician of West Java province, told section reporters, adding that the authorities was acceptable to respond to immoderate aftershocks oregon different emergencies.

“This is catastrophe play astatine the extremity of the year, which is frightening,” helium added.

Rebecca Tan successful Singapore contributed to this report.