Indonesia’s Java escapes 6.4-magnitude quake with few casualties, light damage
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A 6.4-magnitude earthquake struck off the Indonesian island of Java on Friday evening.
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JAKARTA - A 6.4-magnitude earthquake struck off the Indonesian island of Java on Friday evening, injuring at least 10 people, while one person died of a suspected heart attack during the quake, the country’s disaster mitigation agency said.
The tremor caused minor damage to hundreds of houses, some offices, health and education facilities scattered in the region of Yogyakarta and Central Java province, agency spokesman Abdul Muhari told Reuters on Saturday.
Indonesia’s geophysics agency said the quake, which hit at a depth of 25km, was felt in several cities in the region of Yogyakarta as well as east and central Java, Indonesia’s most populous island. No tsunami warning was issued.
Indonesia, in South-east Asia, straddles the so-called “Pacific Ring of Fire”, a highly active seismic zone where different plates on the earth’s crust meet and set off many earthquakes and volcanoes. REUTERS
