Jakarta: At least two people have been killed as multiple earthquakes jolted coastal cities of Indonesia’s West Java province and damaged dozens of houses, disaster management officials said on Saturday.
The initial earthquake measuring 4.5-magnitude occurred 48 km southwest of West Java city Sukabumi at 11.04 p.m. on Friday at a depth of 50 km, Indonesia’s Meteorology, Climatology and Geophysics Agency (BMKG) said.
The second earthquake with a huge scale of 7.3 occurred around 42 minutes later with epicentre at 74 km southwest of Kawalu, at a depth of 105 km in the province’s Tasikmalaya regency, Xinhua news agency reported.
The third earthquake with 6.9 magnitude took place almost at the same time, also in Tasikmalaya with epicentre located in 11 km southwest of Tasikmalaya at a depth of 107 km.
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The BMKG agency issued tsunami warning in three provinces of West Java, Central Java and Yogyakarta after the second earthquake took place and called it off two hours later.
