5.7 earthquake shakes Indonesia’s most populous island
An earthquake of magnitude 5.7 shook the Indonesian island of Java, the most populated in the country, on Saturday, without the authorities reporting for the moment any damage or victims. The United States Geological Survey, which records seismic activity around the world, recorded the earthquake at 4:49 p.m. local time (09:49 GMT) and placed the hypocenter at a depth of 112 kilometers and the epicenter at 18 kilometers from the town of Banjar.
For its part, the Indonesian Meteorology, Climatology and Geophysics Agency (BMKG) estimated the magnitude of the earthquake at 6.4, with a depth of 118 kilometers, and ruled out the possibility of potential tsunamis. Indonesia sits on the so-called Pacific Ring of Fire, an area of high seismic and volcanic activity in which some 7,000 earthquakes are recorded each year, most of them moderate.
On November 21, an earthquake in the country’s most populous province of West Java, more than 300 dead and some 8,000 injuredin what is the country’s deadliest earthquake since September 2018, when another tremor and tsunami on the island of Celebes (Sulawesi) claimed the lives of more than 4,300 people.
A 4.7 magnitude earthquake shakes the state of Venezuela on the border with Colombia
This Friday, an earthquake measuring 4.7 on the Richter scale shook the Venezuelan state of Táchira, border with Colombia, with no damage reported so farreported the Foundation for Seismological Research (Funvisis).
According to the official report posted on Twitter, It was a “felt earthquake” with a depth of 5 kilometers and an epicenter located 43 kilometers away northwest of San Antonio, a border town where the Simón Bolívar International Bridge that connects Venezuela to Colombia is located.
For its part, The Táchira Civil Protection team reported the event on their Twitter accountand assured that several towns in this Andean region felt the quake around 7:09 p.m. local time (23:09 GMT).
In social networks, citizens reported that the telluric movement affected the populations closest to the border such as San Cristóbal, La Fría and Ureña, in Venezuela, and Norte de Santander, in Colombia. So far, local authorities have reported no damage or casualties as a result of this event.
Source: El Heraldo De Mexico
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