An earthquake measuring 7 on the Richter scale shakes the northeast of the Indonesian island of Java

An earthquake measuring 7 on the Richter scale shook the waters northeast of the Indonesian island of Java, the country’s most populous island, on Friday with no damage or casualties reported by authorities at this time.

The United States Geological Survey, which records seismic activity around the world, recorded the earthquake at 4:55 p.m. local time (9:55 GMT), placing the hypocenter at a depth of 594 kilometers below the sea floor and the epicenter at 96 kilometers from the coastal town of Tuban, with more than 90,000 inhabitants.

For its part, Indonesia’s Bureau of Meteorology, Climatology and Geophysics (BMKG) estimated the magnitude of the earthquake at 6.6, with a depth of 632 kilometers, and ruled out the possibility of a possible tsunami.

Indonesia lies on the so-called Pacific Ring of Fire, an area of ​​great seismic and volcanic activity that records about 7,000 earthquakes each year, most of them moderate.

Last November, more than 330 people lost their lives and about 1,000 were injured in Java as a result of a magnitude 5.6 earthquake with a depth of 10 kilometers that shook several towns in the western region of the island.




Source: El heraldo

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