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A 5.7-magnitude earthquake has deed Indonesia’s main land of Java, the United States Geological Survey (USGS) said, shaking the aforesaid municipality devastated by different quake past period that near much than 330 radical dead.
The quake struck connected onshore astatine a extent of 112km (70 miles) and the epicentre was located 18km south-east of metropolis of Banjar, according to the USGS. There were nary contiguous reports of casualties oregon large damage.
The country’s meteorological bureau gave a higher magnitude of 6.4 for the quake, which besides shook buildings successful Indonesia’s capital, Jakarta, according to an Agence France-Presse journalist.
The bureau said the tremor had caused buildings to shingle successful the municipality of Garut, successful West Java province, and warned residents adjacent the epicentre to beware of imaginable aftershocks. However, it said determination was nary menace of a tsunami.
Indonesia experiences predominant seismic and volcanic enactment due to the fact that of its presumption connected the Pacific “ring of fire”, wherever tectonic plates collide.
Last period a shallow 5.6-magnitude tremor hit the municipality of Cianjur successful West Java, sidesplitting 331 people, injuring thousands and leaving tens of thousands stateless aft it collapsed buildings and triggered landslides.
Many were recovered buried nether rubble successful the days aft the quake, with lone respective palmy rescues reported, including an cognition to escaped a six-year-old lad that exigency workers described arsenic a “miracle”.
Residents of the municipality were shaken again by Saturday’s quake and it caused immoderate roofs to beryllium lightly damaged, a subject authoritative told section broadcaster Kompas.
“It made america consciousness similar we were swaying. We could spot hanging lamps swaying,” helium said.
A 6.2-magnitude quake that shook Sulawesi land successful January past twelvemonth killed much than 100 radical and near thousands homeless.
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