An earthquake hits Indonesia’s Java, killing at least 162 people

An earthquake rocked Indonesia’s main island of Java Monday afternoon, local officials said, killing at least 162 people.

Suharyanto, head of the National Disaster Mitigation Agency, said about 700 people were injured.

“Many people were injured because buildings collapsed,” he added.

Local media, quoting West Java Governor Ridwan Kamil, put the death toll at 162 Monday night.

Indonesia’s disaster mitigation agency said in a statement that more than 5,300 people have been displaced. It added that at least 25 people were still trapped under collapsed buildings.

The USGS said the 5.6-magnitude quake struck West Java at 1:21 p.m. local time (1:21 a.m. ET). It was centered in the Cianjur region at a depth of 6.2 miles – about 47 miles southeast of the Indonesian capital, Jakarta.

The country’s Meteorology, Climatology and Geophysics Agency recorded at least 25 aftershocks.

People injured during the earthquake in Indonesia are treated in a hospital parking lot in Cianjur, West Java on Monday.

“There are residents trapped in isolated places … so we assume that the number of injured and deaths will increase over time,” Kamel told reporters.

Indonesia’s disaster mitigation agency said more than 2,200 homes were damaged in Cianjur district, as well as a boarding school, hospital and several government buildings. Hundreds of homes in nearby areas were damaged, she added, adding that several landslides were reported around the epicenter.

The disaster management agency said in an earlier statement that information was still being collected on the extent of the losses and damages. The injured were taken to hospitals and were also seen receiving medical treatment in parking lots, according to preliminary images from the area.

The earthquake was felt strongly in the Greater Jakarta area. The capital’s skyscrapers swayed and some were evacuated.

The Southeast Asian country of more than 270 million people sits on the “Ring of Fire,” a chain of volcanoes and fault lines in the Pacific Ocean basin, and is frequently jolted by earthquakes, tsunamis, and volcanic eruptions.

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

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Associated Press contributed.

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