Less than a week after a major temblor that killed at least 65 people shook the island of Java, a strong earthquake struck the same area late Monday.
According to the US Geological Survey’s National Earthquake Information Center, the preliminary magnitude for the quake was 6.1. It happened shortly after 11 p.m. local time, and its epicenter was 265 kilometers south of Yogyakarta in central Java.
There were no immediate reports of injuries or damage.
More than 400 people were injured and 32 are still missing after a 7.0 magnitude quake triggered landslides and collapsed buildings across Java on Wednesday last week. That quake also caused buildings to sway in Jakarta—hundreds of miles away.
No stranger to earthquakes, Indonesia is located on the “Ring of Fire,” an arc of fault lines circling the Pacific Basin that is prone to frequent earthquakes and volcanic eruptions.
An earthquake measuring at least 9.0 in magnitude struck off the coast of the northern tip of Indonesia’s Sumatra island in 2004, triggering a major tsunami in the Indian Ocean that killed more than 200,000 people in 11 countries.
(via CNN)










