JAKARTA, Indonesia—On Saturday, a powerful magnitude 6.1 earthquake struck the southern region of Java, the country's biggest island; however, no major injuries or property damage was immediately reported.
According to the U.S. Geological Survey, the earthquake occurred at a depth of 68.3 kilometers (42.4 miles) and 102 kilometers (63 miles) south of Banjar city. There was no alert about a tsunami.
For almost a minute, high-rise buildings in Jakarta's capital trembled, and the West Javan provincial headquarters of Bandung, as well as Jakarta's satellite cities of Depok, Tangerang, Bogor, and Bekasi, experienced intense shaking of their two-story residences. Based on information from Indonesia's Meteorology, Climatology and Geophysical Agency, the earthquake was also felt in several cities in West Java, Yogyakarta, and East Java province.
The agency warned of possible aftershocks.
While they are common throughout the nation's vast archipelago, earthquakes are rarely felt in Jakarta.
Indonesia, a 270 million-person seismically active archipelago, is vulnerable to seismic tremors due to its position atop significant geological faults known as the Pacific "Ring of Fire."
near 2022, a magnitude 5.6 earthquake near Cianjur, West Java, claimed at least 602 lives. It was the deadliest in Indonesia since over 4,300 people were killed in an earthquake and tsunami that struck Sulawesi in 2018.
Over 230,000 people were killed in a tsunami that struck twelve nations in 2004 after an exceptionally strong earthquake in the Indian Ocean, the majority of whom were in the Aceh province of Indonesia.
