Indonesia's Java Sea Earthquake: One Child Dead, Four Houses Damaged
By Mohd Iswandi Kasan Anuar
JAKARTA, April 16 (Bernama) -- A child died while four houses were damaged in a magnitude 6.6 earthquake that struck in the Java Sea, off East Java province, on Friday.
Bali disaster management reported a five-year-old child in Tabanan, Bali, died – allegedly due to a cardiac arrest – when the earthquake hits, according to Indonesia’s disaster management agency (BNPB).
Its spokesperson Abdul Muhari said the agency also identified two houses each in West Java and East Java that suffered damage.
Meanwhile, the country’s geophysics agency BMKG revised the earthquake magnitude to 6.9, at a depth of 643 kilometres – about 68 kilometres northwest of Tuban in East Java province.
It said the quake occurred due to slab pull deformation activity on the Indo-Australian plate, which is subducted under the Java Sea.
Indonesia lies on the Pacific Ring of Fire, where most of earth’s active earthquakes and volcanoes take place.
-- BERNAMA
