JAKARTA, July 1 (BNA): A 6.4-magnitude earthquake struck off the Indonesian island of Java Friday evening, injuring at least 10 people, while a person suspected of having a heart attack during the quake died, the country’s disaster mitigation agency (BNPB) said. ). He said.
The agency’s spokesman, Abdul Mahari, told Reuters on Saturday that the earthquake caused minor damage to hundreds of homes, some offices, and health and educational facilities spread across the Yogyakarta region and Central Java province.
The Indonesian Geophysics Agency said the earthquake was felt at a depth of 25 km in several cities in the Yogyakarta region, as well as east and central Java, Indonesia’s most populous island. No tsunami warning was issued.
Indonesia is located in Southeast Asia on both sides of the so-called “Pacific Ring of Fire”, a highly active seismic zone where different plates meet on the Earth’s crust and cause a large number of earthquakes and volcanoes, reports Reuters.
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