Earthquake kills more than 160 in Indonesia (video)

247, with Reuters - A 5,6 magnitude earthquake struck the main and most populous Indonesian island of Java on Monday (21). At least 162 people died and more than 700 were injured. 

According to the United States Geological Survey, the tremor near the city center of Cianjur, in West Java, occurred at a depth of 10 kilometers (km), considered shallow. 

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Videos circulating on social media showed houses and buildings reduced to rubble, debris in the street, and people trying to help with the rescues with their bare hands. 

West Java Governor Ridwan Kamil told reporters that, as many buildings collapsed, the death toll could rise. "There are residents trapped in isolated locations... therefore, we believe the number of injured and dead will increase over time."

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Ridwan said 88 aftershocks were recorded, and the meteorological agency BMKG warned of more landslides in case of heavy rain.

The earthquake was felt in Jakarta, shaking buildings and furniture, and some people left their offices in the central business district, Reuters witnesses said.

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Indonesia is located in the so-called Pacific Ring of Fire, a seismically very active zone where different tectonic plates meet, causing earthquakes and volcanoes.

In 2004, a magnitude 9,1 earthquake on the island of Sumatra, in northern Indonesia, triggered a tsunami that struck 14 countries, killing 226.000 people along the Indian Ocean coast, more than half of them in Indonesia.

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