2024-03-22T11:45:20+00:00
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/ The Indonesian Geophysics Company reported on Friday {that a} 6.1 magnitude earthquake occurred off the coast of Java Island, at a depth of 10 kilometers.
The company mentioned that the epicenter of the earthquake was 132 kilometers north of Tuban in East Java province, and that it was unlikely that tsunami waves would happen because of the earthquake.
The tremors had been felt strongly in East Java, its capital, Surabaya, in addition to cities in neighboring provinces, in accordance with a number of posts by social media customers in these areas.
Indonesia, an enormous archipelago with greater than 270 million individuals, is continuously hit by earthquakes and volcanic eruptions due to its location on the “Ring of Fireplace,” an arc of volcanoes and fault strains within the Pacific Basin.