A 5.6-magnitude earthquake rattled Indonesia’s West Java province on Monday, a local official said.
21 November 2022 - 11:57A man stands in front of his house, damaged in an earthquake in Cianjur, West Java province, Indonesia, November 21 2022. Picture: ANTARA FOTO/REUTER
West Java governor Ridwan Kamil said on Instagram that 162 people had been killed and 326 were injured. Indonesia straddles the so-called Pacific Ring of Fire, a highly seismically active zone, where different plates on the Earth’s crust meet and create a large number of earthquakes and volcanoes. Hundreds of victims were being treated in a hospital parking lot, some under an emergency tent. Elsewhere in Cianjur, residents huddled together on mats in open fields or in tents while buildings around them had been reduced to rubble.
Vani, who was being treated at Cianjur main hospital, told MetroTV that the walls of her house collapsed during an aftershock.
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