Indonesia: Java quake kills 14 and injures hundreds

An earthquake has struck the main Indonesian land of Java, leaving astatine slightest 14 radical dormant and hundreds much injured, accidental officials.

The 5.6 magnitude quake struck Cianjur municipality successful West Java, astatine a shallow extent of 10km (6 miles), according to US Geological Survey data.

The tremor could beryllium felt successful the superior Jakarta astir 100km away, wherever radical successful gangly buildings were evacuated.

Officials person warned the decease toll could emergence and of imaginable aftershocks.

Videos connected societal media amusement the harm to people's houses and shops.

At slightest 300 radical were being treated for injuries astatine 1 infirmary successful Cianjur, Herman Suherman, a authorities authoritative there, told quality transmission MetroTV.

Most of the injuries were bony fractures sustained from being trapped by debris successful buildings.

Rescuers person been trying to evacuate radical from collapsed buildings, and managed to prevention a pistillate and her baby, according to section reports.

In Jakarta, bureau workers rushed retired of buildings successful the civic and concern territory during the tremor, which lasted for astir a minute.

"I was moving erstwhile the level nether maine was shaking. I could consciousness the tremor clearly. I tried to bash thing to process what it was, but it became adjacent stronger and lasted for immoderate time," lawyer Mayadita Waluyo told the AFP quality agency.

An bureau idiosyncratic named Ahmad Ridwan told Reuters: "We are utilized to this [earthquakes] successful Jakarta, but radical were truthful tense conscionable now, truthful we besides panicked."

Earthquakes are communal successful Indonesia which sits connected the "ring of fire" country of tectonic enactment successful the Pacific.