A 6.0 magnitude earthquake hits the coast of Indonesia’s Java island on Saturday. (Representational)
Jakarta, Indonesia: A 6.0-magnitude earthquake struck off the coast of Indonesia’s Java island Saturday, the USA Geological Survey stated, however no tsunami warning was issued.
The quake hit at a depth of 82 kilometres (50 miles), about 45 kilometres southwest of Malang metropolis in East Java.
There have been no rapid studies of casualties, however the temblor shook Malang, a metropolis of a number of million folks.
“It was fairly sturdy and went for a very long time,” resident Ida Magfiroh informed AFP.
“Every part was swaying.”
Indonesia experiences frequent seismic and volcanic exercise because of its place on the Pacific “Ring of Hearth”, the place tectonic plates collide.
In 2018, a 7.5-magnitude quake and a subsequent tsunami in Palu on Sulawesi island left greater than 4,300 folks lifeless or lacking.
On December 26, 2004, a devastating 9.1-magnitude earthquake struck off the coast of Sumatra and triggered a tsunami that killed 220,000 all through the area, together with round 170,000 in Indonesia.
It was one of many deadliest pure disasters in recorded historical past.
