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JAKARTA, Dec. 8 (AP) A powerful, deep earthquake shook the Indonesian capital and other parts of the main island of Java on Thursday, but there were no immediate reports of serious damage or casualties.
Tall buildings in the capital Jakarta shook for a few seconds and some people ordered evacuations.
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The U.S. Geological Survey said the 5.8-magnitude quake had a focal depth of 123.7 kilometers and was located 14 kilometers northwest of Ciranjang-hilir in West Java province, where a 5.6-magnitude quake struck the city of Cianjur on Nov. 21, killing and injuring at least 334 people Almost 600.
It was the deadliest death toll in Indonesia since the Sulawesi earthquake and tsunami in 2018 killed some 4,340. It also struck at a shallower depth of 10 km.
Earthquakes are a regular occurrence in the vast archipelago, but they were rarely felt in Jakarta.
The country of more than 270 million people is regularly hit by earthquakes, volcanic eruptions and tsunamis because it sits on a volcanic arc and fault line in the Pacific Basin known as the “Ring of Fire.”
In 2004, an extremely powerful Indian Ocean earthquake triggered a tsunami that killed more than 230,000 people in a dozen countries, mostly in the Indonesian province of Aceh. (Associated Press)
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