According to the authorities, 151 people were still missing on Wednesday (local time). “Our focus is on finding the missing in the next three days,” said the head of the National Civil Defense.
More than 1,000 people were injured in the quake, authorities said. About 58,000 were forced from their homes and in many places homes and people were buried by landslides. More than 2,300 buildings were damaged or completely destroyed. The dead included many children who had attended mosques after school, it said.
The earthquake with a magnitude of 5.6 on the Richter scale struck Monday afternoon (local time) about 70 kilometers southeast of the capital Jakarta at a depth of ten kilometers. The epicenter was near the city of Cianjur, where the greatest damage was also caused.
Indonesia has about 270 million inhabitants, more than half of whom live on the main island of Java. The island nation is located on the Pacific Ring of Fire, the most geologically active zone on Earth. Earthquakes and volcanic eruptions are common there. (sda/dpa)
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