Not Less Than 46 Dead In Indonesia Earthquake, 700 Injured

An official said as many as thousands of houses could have been damaged in the quake.

The earthquake was centred in the Cianjur region of West Java.

A shallow 5.6-magnitude earthquake killed at least 46 people and injured hundreds when it damaged buildings and triggered landslides on Indonesia’s main island of Java on Monday, officials said.

The afternoon quake was centred in the Cianjur region of West Java, according to the United States Geological Survey, and was felt as far away as the capital Jakarta, where panicked residents ran into the streets.

“The latest data, 46 people were killed. Victims kept coming from many areas. Around 700 people were injured,” Herman Suherman, head of Cianjur’s local administration, told broadcaster Kompas TV.

The majority of deaths were counted in one hospital, he said earlier, with most of the victims killed in the ruins of collapsed buildings.

He said the town’s Sayang hospital had no power after the quake, leaving doctors unable to operate on victims.