China News Agency, Jakarta, December 3 (Reporter Lin Yongchuan) According to the website of the Indonesian Meteorology, Climatology and Geophysics Agency on the 3rd, at 16:49 Jakarta time (17:49 Beijing time) on the same day, Garut, West Java Province, Indonesia A 6.4-magnitude earthquake occurred in the county (Garut), and many earthquakes were felt strongly.
Authorities have not issued a tsunami warning, and there are no reports of damage yet.
The epicenter of the earthquake was located at 7.51 degrees south latitude and 107.52 degrees east longitude, that is, 52 kilometers southwest of Garut County, West Java Province, with a focal depth of 118 kilometers.
When the earthquake occurred, Bandung, Bogor, Depok, Bekasi in West Java Province, Tangerang in Banten Province, and Jakarta, the capital, felt strongly.
This is the second strong earthquake to hit Indonesia's West Java province in two weeks.
At 13:21 local time on November 21 (14:21 Beijing time), a magnitude 5.6 earthquake occurred in Zhanyu County, West Java Province, Indonesia, with a focal depth of 10 kilometers.
The earthquake caused a large number of house collapses and heavy casualties.
According to reports from local officials in Zhanyu County, as of the afternoon of the 3rd, the death toll caused by the 5.6-magnitude Zhanyu earthquake has risen to 334, and another 8 people are missing.
The search and rescue work has been carried out for 13 days and has not stopped yet.
The number of houses damaged in the earthquake exceeded 35,000, and nearly 115,000 victims were left homeless. The Indonesian disaster relief authorities set up nearly 500 temporary resettlement sites for the victims.
As of today, the Indonesian Meteorology, Climatology and Geophysics Agency has recorded 379 aftershocks.
When the 6.4-magnitude earthquake occurred in Garut County that day, the Zhanyu disaster area also sometimes felt the earthquake, and the shocked victims ran to open places to avoid danger.
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