![]() ![]() “We call on people to stay outside the buildings for now as there might be potential aftershocks,” Karnawati told reporters. In the two hours after the quake, 25 aftershocks were recorded, BMKG reported, adding there was a danger of landslides, especially in the event of heavy rain. I worried there will be another quake,” Muchlis told Metro TV, adding that people ran out of their houses, some fainting and vomiting because of the strong tremors.ĭwikorita Karnawati, head of the weather and geophysics agency BMKG, advised people to stay outdoors in case of aftershocks. Muchlis, who was in Cianjur when the quake hit, said he felt “a huge tremor” and the walls and ceiling of his office building were damaged. My colleagues and I decided to get out of our office on the ninth floor using the emergency stairs,” said Vidi Primadhania, an employee in south Jakarta. High-rises in the capital swayed and some were evacuated. The earthquake was felt strongly in the Greater Jakarta area. Dozens of buildings were damaged during the shallow earthquake ‘Huge tremor’ Herman Suherman, a government official from Cianjur, said the town’s Sayang hospital had no power after the earthquake, leaving doctors unable to operate on victims.Ībout 51 educational facilities – including 30 primary schools and an Islamic boarding school – were affected.įootage from Metro TV showed structures in Cianjur reduced almost entirely to rubble as worried residents huddled outside. “There are residents trapped in isolated places … so we are under the assumption that the number of injured and deaths will rise with time.” “So many buildings crumbled and shattered,” Kamil told reporters. Its spokesperson said the search would continue through the night.ĭue to miscounting, officials offered wildly fluctuating death tolls after an Indonesian stadium disaster last month. Indonesia’s national disaster mitigation agency, BNPB, put the toll at 62 and said rescuers were searching for 25 believed to be trapped under the rubble. More than 100 people have been killed and hundreds more injured after a magnitude 5.6 earthquake on Indonesia’s largest island of Java □Īdam, the spokesman for the local administration in Cianjur town in West Java, who like many Indonesians goes by one name, confirmed the toll to AFP. He said on his Instagram page that 326 others have been injured. Kamil said that more than 13,000 people whose homes were heavily damaged were taken to evacuation centres. ![]() The residents of Cianjur live mostly in towns of single and two-storey buildings and in smaller homes in the surrounding countryside. The toll is expected to rise further, but no new estimates were immediately available. Many of the dead were public school students who had finished their classes for the day and were taking extra lessons at several Islamic schools when they collapsed, West Java Governor Ridwan Kamil said as he announced the new death toll in the remote area. The region is home to more than 2.5 million people. The epicentre of the 5.6 magnitude earthquake was near the town of Cianjur in mountainous West Java, about 75km (45 miles) southeast of the capital, Jakarta. A powerful earthquake has shaken Indonesia’s main island of Java, killing 162 people and injuring hundreds of others – with rescuers searching for survivors trapped under the rubble amid a series of aftershocks. ![]()
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