A strong earthquake, particularly in the Indonesian capital, Jakarta, occurred on Friday, August 2, off the coast of south-west Java, the national disaster management agency said, warning that it could spawn a tsunami with waves of three meters.
According to the USGS Geophysical Institute, the magnitude 6.9 earthquake occurred at a depth of 42 kilometers, some 150 kilometers off Labuan, in western Java, the most densely populated island in Indonesia. The Indonesian Disaster Management Agency had reported a magnitude of 7.4 and a depth of 10 km.
"Everyone ran away"
In Jakarta, residents fled their homes following the earthquake, which occurred at 19:03 local time (12:03 GMT). "The chandelier was shaking at home, I ran out of my 19th floor apartment," said a 50-year-old resident, Elisa, to AFP. "Everyone ran away, it was really a big shake, which made me very scared."
An earthquake of 7.5 in 2018
A magnitude 7.3 earthquake occurred on July 14 in the north of the Maluku archipelago in eastern Indonesia, killing five people and leaving thousands displaced. Indonesia, an archipelago of 17,000 islands and islets, formed by the convergence of three large tectonic plates (Indo-Pacific, Australian, Eurasian), is located on the Pacific Ring of Fire, an area of high seismic activity. .
In 2018, an earthquake of 7.5 followed by a tsunami in Palu on Celebes Island killed more than 2,200 people and left thousands missing. On December 26, 2004, a massive 9.0-magnitude earthquake rocked Aceh province, in the far west of the Indonesian archipelago, and caused a massive tsunami across the Pacific, killing some 170,000 people.
With AFP