JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — A strong earthquake shook Indonesia’s most populous island of Java on Friday night (Indonesia time), collapsing buildings and killing at least 2 people.
JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — A strong earthquake shook Indonesia’s most populous island of Java on Friday night (Indonesia time), collapsing buildings and killing at least 2 people.
The quake struck at 11:47 p.m.
Panicking people ran out of buildings in many areas and Indonesian television showed heavy traffic on roads as people fled coastal areas.
A hospital in the central Java town of Banyumas was damaged and patients were evacuated, Indonesia’s MetroTV reported.
A 62-year-old man and an 80-year-old woman were killed in building collapses, said National Disaster Mitigation Agency spokesman Sutopo Purwo Nugroho.
He said buildings collapsed and were damaged in several cities and towns of central and western Java.
The earthquake had a magnitude of 6.5 and was about 56 miles deep and located just inland, the U.S. Geological Survey said.
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