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Earthquake shakes Indonesia’s Java island, killing at least 46<!-- wp:html --><div> <div class="_1665V _2q-Vk"> <p>JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — An earthquake struck the main Indonesian island of Java on Monday, killing at least 46 people, damaging dozens of buildings and sending residents scrambling to safety on the streets of the capital.</p> <p>The US Geological Survey said the 5.6-magnitude quake was centered in the Cianjur region of West Java province at a depth of 10 km.</p> <p>It killed at least 46 people and injured 700 others, said the head of the National Disaster Mitigation Agency, Suharyanto. Dozens of buildings were damaged, including an Islamic boarding school, a hospital and other public facilities, the agency said.</p> <div class="_1lwW_"></div> <p><span class="_2Li3P">People injured during an earthquake receive medical treatment in the parking lot of a hospital in West Java after the earthquake.</span><span class="_30ROC">Credit:</span>access point</p> <p>Information on the extent of casualties and damage was still being collected, it said in a statement.</p> </div> <div class="_1665V _2q-Vk"> <p>The quake was strongly felt in the Jakarta metropolitan area. The tall buildings of the capital tottered and some were evacuated.</p> <p>“The earthquake felt so strong. My colleagues and I decided to leave our office on the ninth floor using the emergency stairs,” said Vidi Primadhania, an employee in South Jakarta.</p> <p>Earthquakes occur frequently in the sprawling archipelago nation, but it’s rare for them to be felt in Jakarta.</p> <p>The country of more than 270 million people is frequently hit by earthquakes, volcanic eruptions and tsunamis due to its location on the “Ring of Fire,” an arc of volcanoes and fault lines in the Pacific basin.</p> <p>In February, a magnitude 6.2 earthquake killed at least 25 people and injured more than 460 in West Sumatra province. In January 2021, a magnitude 6.2 earthquake killed more than 100 people and injured nearly 6,500 in West Sulawesi province.</p> </div> <div class="_1665V _2q-Vk"> <p>A powerful earthquake and tsunami in the Indian Ocean in 2004 killed nearly 230,000 people in a dozen countries, most of them in Indonesia.</p> <p><strong>access point</strong></p> </div> </div><!-- /wp:html -->

JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — An earthquake struck the main Indonesian island of Java on Monday, killing at least 46 people, damaging dozens of buildings and sending residents scrambling to safety on the streets of the capital.

The US Geological Survey said the 5.6-magnitude quake was centered in the Cianjur region of West Java province at a depth of 10 km.

It killed at least 46 people and injured 700 others, said the head of the National Disaster Mitigation Agency, Suharyanto. Dozens of buildings were damaged, including an Islamic boarding school, a hospital and other public facilities, the agency said.

People injured during an earthquake receive medical treatment in the parking lot of a hospital in West Java after the earthquake.Credit:access point

Information on the extent of casualties and damage was still being collected, it said in a statement.

The quake was strongly felt in the Jakarta metropolitan area. The tall buildings of the capital tottered and some were evacuated.

“The earthquake felt so strong. My colleagues and I decided to leave our office on the ninth floor using the emergency stairs,” said Vidi Primadhania, an employee in South Jakarta.

Earthquakes occur frequently in the sprawling archipelago nation, but it’s rare for them to be felt in Jakarta.

The country of more than 270 million people is frequently hit by earthquakes, volcanic eruptions and tsunamis due to its location on the “Ring of Fire,” an arc of volcanoes and fault lines in the Pacific basin.

In February, a magnitude 6.2 earthquake killed at least 25 people and injured more than 460 in West Sumatra province. In January 2021, a magnitude 6.2 earthquake killed more than 100 people and injured nearly 6,500 in West Sulawesi province.

A powerful earthquake and tsunami in the Indian Ocean in 2004 killed nearly 230,000 people in a dozen countries, most of them in Indonesia.

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