A Indonesia suffers once again the consequences of a earthquake of magnitude 5.6 that hit it this Monday, November 21.
According to the United States Geological Survey, responsible for recording tremors around the world, the epicenter occurred in Cianjur, in the western region of Java, the country's main island and which is about 75 kilometers from the country's capital, Jakarta.
To date, forty-six people have died and more than 700 have been injured. According to Cianjur authorities, there are still hundreds of people missing, and dozens of buildings were totally or partially damaged.
The tremor struck at a depth of 10 kilometers and was also felt very strongly in the Jakarta metropolitan area, which has hundreds of commercial buildings. The capital's skyscrapers swayed for more than three minutes and some were evacuated.
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Indonesia is made up of a large archipelago of more than 270 million people, and is frequently hit by earthquakes, volcanic eruptions and tsunamis due to its location, called
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However, experts comment that it is unusual for tremors to be felt in Jakarta.
Earlier this year, in February, a magnitude 6.2 earthquake took the lives of at least 25 people and injured more than 460 in West Sumatra province. In 2021, in January, a magnitude 6.2 earthquake killed more than 100 people and injured nearly 6,500 in the province of West Sulawesi.
A strong earthquake and tsunami at the Indian Ocean in 2004 they killed almost 230,000 people in more than ten countries in the region, but most of the deaths occurred in Indonesia.
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By Erica Caetano
Journalist
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