Earthquake in indonesia

Last week, an earthquake struck the Indonesian island of Java, leaving at least 321 people dead and roughly 2,000 others injured. The disaster damaged over 62,000 homes and displaced more than 73,000 people, per the But all this catastrophic damage occurred despite the disaster only registering at a magnitude of 5.6—which, “in the scheme of things, is just not a huge earthquake,” Washington Post ’s Carolyn Y. Johnson. “There’s lots of faults that can produce an earthquake that big.” Indonesia is no stranger to earthquakes of this size. It lies in the Pacific Ocean’s Ring of Fire, where several tectonic plates collide. Where moving Two magnitude 6.2 earthquakes—stronger than the recent one—struck Indonesia in February 2022 and in January 2021. They killed about 25 and 100 people, respectively, writes Victoria Milko of the One reason why the recent earthquake was so damaging has to do with its location. Its epicenter was just over 6 miles from the surface, writes “Even though the earthquake was medium-sized, it [was] close to the surface… and located inland, close to where people live,” Authorities said soft and loose soil on the area’s hills also led to more destruction, per the The damage was compounded by the area’s infrastructure—many buildings are not designed to survive earthquakes, According to Due to the risk of aftershocks, a hospital in Cianjur treated people for injuries outside, a senior government official said in a televised interview, per the Wall Street Journ...