An earthquake of magnitude 6.4 strikes the Java island in Indonesia
The United States Geological Survey said that an offshore earthquake of magnitude 6.4 struck close to Indonesia’s Java island on Friday, with the tremor felt in the country’s capital, Jakarta.
The USGS said that the earthquake, which occurred at around 3:52 p.m. local time (0852 GMT) near Bawean island off the northern coast of Java island, had a depth of about eight kilometers (five miles).
No damage or casualties were reported right away, and no local authorities issued a tsunami warning.
Due to its location on the Pacific “Ring of Fire,” an arc of severe seismic activity where tectonic plates meet that spans from Japan to Southeast Asia and throughout the Pacific basin, Indonesia, a large archipelago country, is subject to regular earthquakes.
A January 2021 earthquake of a magnitude of 6.2 struck the island of Sulawesi, killing over 100 people and leaving others homeless.
In Palu, Sulawesi, a magnitude 7.5 earthquake and its tsunami claimed more than 2,200 lives in 2018.
Furthermore, in 2004 the Aceh province was hit by a magnitude 9.1 earthquake that resulted in a tsunami and the deaths of over 170,000 people throughout Indonesia.
