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6.5 Magnitude Earthquake to Make People Run Out in Panic

6.5 Magnitude Earthquake in Central Java Indonesia

National flood has not fully subsided, an earthquake rocked parts of Indonesia, on this Saturday. Meteorology, Climatology and Geophysics (BMKG) reports, Mag: 6.5 SR ,25-Jan-14 12:14:20 GMT, 48 km, (104 miles the southwest KEBUMEN-CENTRAL JAVA).

It is considered had no potential to trigger a tsunami. But the quake caused panic from Central Java region, Yogyakarta, West Java and some surrounding areas. Data Information and Public Relations BNPB has released an explaining the depth of the center of the earthquake in the Indian Ocean, depth of 48 kilometres that the epicenter located in the interior of the Eurasian plate subduction zones outside Australian Indian-Eurasian plate.

As we known that Indonesia is on the so-called Pacific Ring of Fire. There was a tsunami that killed 230,000 people in a dozen countries including many people in Aceh.

Earthquake in Java is fairly strong and can be felt along the southern coast from Cilacap, Kebumen to Purworedjo, Yogyakarta, Solo, Boyolali, Klaten, Magelang, Semarang, and Sragen.

Disaster management agency in the nearby area also reported that the quake was felt for 30 seconds in Purworedjo Central Java. The quake knocked down a house. Some of the houses in the village Krandegan, District Bacan, Purworedjo reported damaged. Disaster management agency is still collecting data.

Meanwhile, the Center for Research and Technological Development of Geological Disaster (BPPTKG) report through social media that earthquake now had no effect on the activity of Mount Merapi in Yogyakarta.

Observation in the visible region of Yogyakarta, earthquake feels whennd people scattered. Those who were in the home, office buildings, and malls and supermarkets run out in panic.

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