JAKARTA — A strong earthquake hit
Indonesia’s main island of Java on Saturday, injuring at least one person and
shaking the same town devastated by a tremor last month that left more than 330
people dead.
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The 5.7-magnitude quake struck on land at a depth of
112km, with the epicenter located 18km southeast of the West Java city of
Banjar, according to the US Geological Survey.
Indonesia’s meteorological agency, known as BMKG,
gave a higher magnitude of 6.4 for the quake, which shook buildings in the
capital Jakarta, according to an AFP journalist.
At least one person was injured and was taken to
hospital, the country’s national disaster mitigation chief Suharyanto, who like
many Indonesians goes by one name, told broadcaster Metro TV.
There were no reports of other casualties or major
damage.
The BMKG said the quake caused buildings to shake in
the West Java town of Garut and it warned residents near the epicenter to
beware of potential aftershocks.
But there was no threat of a tsunami, it said.
‘Everything is safe’
Budi Satria, the local rescue chief in Garut, said there appeared to be no
significant damage.
“Some people ran outside when the earthquake
happened but when it calmed down, they went back to their activities. Thank
God, so far everything is safe,” he told local broadcaster Kompas.
Indonesia
experiences frequent seismic and volcanic activity due to its position on the
Pacific “Ring of Fire”, where tectonic plates collide.
Last month a
shallow 5.6-magnitude quake hit the town of
Cianjur in West Java, killing 331
people, injuring thousands and leaving tens of thousands homeless after it
collapsed buildings and triggered landslides.
Many were found
buried under rubble in the days following the quake with few successful rescues
reported. One operation to free a six-year-old boy was described as a “miracle”
by emergency workers.
Last month’s
disaster was the deadliest earthquake to hit the archipelago nation since a
2018 quake and resulting tsunami killed more than 4,000 people on the island of
Sulawesi.
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