At least 62 people were killed and 700 are believed to be injured after a 5.6 magnitude earthquake struck the Indonesian island of Java today.
A man stands beside damaged houses following an earthquake in Cianjur on November 21. Photo: STR/AFP via Getty Images
“The majority who died were hit by buildings. Some were hit on the head,” Herman Suherman, a government official in the Cianjur regency, said Monday, theWhile there has been no tsunami warning, 45 aftershocks were recorded after the earthquake, A number of landslides have been reported around Cianjur, and the earthquake was felt as far away as the Jakarta region, where it caused some buildings to sway and prompted evacuations,In the village of Cijedil, in Cugenang District, "25 people were recorded as still being buried under collapsed buildings," the National Disaster Management Agency said in its statement.
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