An earthquake has shaken Indonesia's essential island of Java, killing not less than 14 individuals, damaging dozens of buildings and sending residents into the capital's streets for security.
The US Geological Survey stated the magnitude 5.6 quake was centred within the Cianjur area in West Java province at a depth of 10 kilometres.
It killed not less than 14 individuals and injured 17 others, Nationwide Catastrophe Mitigation Company chief Suharyanto stated.
Dozens of buildings had been broken, together with an Islamic boarding college, a hospital and different public amenities, the company stated.
Info was nonetheless being collected concerning the extent of casualties and injury, it stated in a press release.
The quake was felt strongly within the better Jakarta space.
Excessive rises within the capital swayed and a few had been evacuated.
"The quake felt so sturdy. My colleagues and I made a decision to get out of our workplace on the ninth ground utilizing the emergency stairs," stated Vidi Primadhania, an worker in South Jakarta.
Earthquakes happen regularly throughout the sprawling archipelago nation, however it's unusual for them to be felt in Jakarta.
The nation of greater than 270 million individuals is regularly struck by earthquakes, volcanic eruptions and tsunamis due to its location on the "Ring of Hearth", an arc of volcanoes and fault traces within the Pacific Basin.
In February, a magnitude 6.2 earthquake killed not less than 25 individuals and injured greater than 460 in West Sumatra province.
In January 2021, a magnitude 6.2 earthquake killed greater than 100 individuals and injured almost 6,500 in West Sulawesi province.
A robust Indian Ocean quake and tsunami in 2004 killed almost 230,000 individuals in a dozen international locations, most of them in Indonesia.