At least 20 dead and 300 injured in an earthquake in Indonesia

An earthquake of magnitude 5.4 shook the province of West Java on Monday, with almost 50 million inhabitants, the most populous in Indonesia, leaving about 20 dead and at least 300 injured, according to local media Herman Suherman, chief administrative center of the city of Cianjur, the closest to the epicenter.

In addition, significant damage to residences and infrastructures was recorded.

The United States Geological Survey, which records seismic activity around the world, recorded the earthquake at 1:21 p.m. (+7 GMT) and located the hypocenter at a depth of 10 kilometers and the epicenter at 16.7 kilometers from the town of Cianjur, with a population of about 170,000 people.

In videos circulating on the internet you can see people on stretchers in a hospital in the region and several others receiving medical assistance.

The earthquake also caused

around Cianjur, which is located about 75 kilometers from Jakarta, where residents also felt the tremors, according to the accounts of users on the networks.

For its part, Indonesia's Agency for Meteorology, Climatology and Geophysics (BMKG) estimated the magnitude of the quake at 5.6 and ruled out the "potential for a tsunami."

Indonesia, with some 275 million inhabitants, sits on the so-called

, an area of ​​great seismic and volcanic activity in which some 7,000 earthquakes are recorded each year, most of them moderate.

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