China News Agency, Jakarta, November 22 (Lin Yongchuan, Li Rui) As of the afternoon of the 22nd, the death toll of the magnitude 5.6 earthquake in Zhanyu County, West Java Province, Indonesia has risen to 268, with 151 missing and 1,083 injured.
Indonesia's official Antara News Agency and other media reported the above data on the same day, citing the report of Suharyanto, the head of the country's Disaster Resilience Agency.
Suhariyanto said that the earthquake also caused 6,570 houses to be severely damaged, 27,100 houses to be moderately damaged, and 12,641 houses to be slightly damaged.
The disaster relief department has evacuated 58,362 people to safe places.
Of the 268 dead, 122 have been identified.
The government of Zhanyu County in the quake-hit area launched an emergency response to the earthquake, declaring a one-month state of emergency in the quake-hit area, from the 21st of this month to the 20th of December.
On the same day, Indonesian President Joko Widodo, accompanied by Governor of West Java Province Ridwan and Coordinating Minister of Human Development and Culture Muhadjir, visited the earthquake zone in Zhanyu County.
Widodo expressed condolences to the victims of the earthquake and asked all departments involved in the disaster relief to speed up the search and rescue work.
Widodo said that the repair and construction of houses in the earthquake zone must be carried out in accordance with the earthquake resistance standards of the Ministry of Public Works and Housing Construction.
According to relevant officials of the Indonesian Disaster Relief Agency, an important reason for the massive collapse of houses in the earthquake and the serious casualties was that the earthquake resistance of the houses in the earthquake area was too low.
At 13:21 local time on November 21 (14:21 Beijing time), a 5.6-magnitude earthquake with a focal depth of 10 kilometers occurred in Cianjur, West Java, Indonesia, causing heavy casualties and the collapse of a large number of houses.
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