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But I was too late to get out and was hit by the wall.” “I saw my friends running to escape from the building. It was very strong,” Hasan, a construction worker who is being treated at the Cianjur regional hospital, told the Associated Press. Power is down and communications were also affected, making rescue efforts more difficult, she added. Nurses had been sent by the Indonesian Red Cross on motorbikes to reach the injured as four of the worst-affected areas, about one hour from the main town, were otherwise inaccessible.

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Homes had been damaged across a wide area, and access was difficult due to cracked roads, said Mafazah. Many people don’t want to stay at their homes,” she said, adding that people were traumatised and afraid, and were sleeping outside. “Until now, the earthquake still happens, but not as big as before. Ima Mafazah, a volunteer with the Indonesian Red Cross, said tremors continued late into the evening. Rescue workers and volunteers searched for victims who were trapped or injured beneath the rubble of collapsed buildings. Information was still being collected about the extent of casualties and damage, the agency added. Dozens of buildings were damaged, including an Islamic boarding school, a hospital and other public facilities, the BNPB said. Several landslides were reported across Cianjur. Map showing where 5.6-magnitude quake was centred in West Java province “I wasn’t prepared and saw houses reduced to rubble … Some 50 houses are damaged, with around 10 being heavily damaged.”

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Mus Mustopa, who lives in Padaluyu, a village in Cianjur, told Indonesia’s Kompas TV he helped a family recover the body of an 80-year-old woman who had died in the quake.

Gen Suharyanto, the head of the National Disaster Management Agency (BNPB), said the nearby Sayang hospital had no power after the quake, hampering efforts to treat victims, and that more medical staff were needed. At a local hospital, overwhelmed by the number of victims, the injured were treated outside, some lying on mattresses or blankets on the ground as they were given oxygen masks and IV drips. “So many incidents occurred at several Islamic schools.”įootage from Cianjur showed a school building with a collapsed roof, as well as badly damaged homes where brick walls had been torn down.

“The majority of those who died were children,” he said, adding that many were students who were taking extra lessons. One of the most seismically active zones on the planet, it stretches from Japan and Indonesia on one side of the Pacific to California and South America on the other.ĬNN’s Rhea Mogul contributed to this report.Ridwan Kamil, the governor of West Java, said 162 people had been killed. Indonesia sits on the “Ring of Fire,” a band around the Pacific Ocean that sets off frequent earthquakes and volcanic activity. Other damaged buildings included 31 schools, 124 places of worship and three health facilities.

Suharyanto said 56,320 houses were damaged in that quake, more than a third of them badly. The search and rescue operation following November’s earthquake has ended, the BNPB said Saturday.įinal details on the total number of injured and people displaced are yet to be released. It comes after a deadly magnitude-5.6 earthquake shook West Java on November 21, with a final death toll of 334. Based on the experience of previous earthquakes, with a depth of more than 60 kilometers, moreover this is above 100 kilometers, it is expected that the impact… won’t be too damaging,” Suharyanto added. “According to the BMKG, this earthquake was quite deep. “In response to the earthquake that happened earlier, once again, remain calm, alert but there is no need to stop your daily activities,” Suharyanto said. However, the head of the BNPB, Major-General Suharyanto, has asked residents to remain calm, alert and careful, adding that a response team will be sent to assess needs. There have been no reports of aftershocks. One person was injured while four houses and a school were damaged in the town of Garut, according to the country’s National Agency for Disaster Management (BNPB).

An earthquake of 6.1 magnitude hit Indonesia’s West Java province on Saturday, the country’s geophysics agency BMKG said.Īccording to the BMKG, the epicenter of the earthquake was on land and there is no potential for a tsunami.

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