On late Friday, June 30, 2023, areas of Indonesia's heavily populated main island of Java were shaken by a powerful undersea earthquake that caused fear and caused at least one death, two injuries, and significant damage to dozens of homes.
According to the US Geological Survey, the magnitude 5.8 earthquake that struck Yogyakarta on Friday was located 84 kilometres southwest of the village of Bambanglipuro in the Bantul district. It happened 86 kilometres beneath the surface.According to Abdul Muhari, a 67-year-old woman in Bantul died after falling while attempting to flee in a panic, and at least two other locals also sustained injuries.
Muhari claims that at least 93 dwellings, along with other facilities like schools, health centres, houses of worship, and governmental structures, were demolished by the earthquake in Yogyakarta and its neighbouring provinces of Central Java and East Java.
Locals in the Yogyakarta and Central Java provinces were shown on television frightened as houses and other structures swayed briefly. In some instances, evacuation orders resulted in large-scale street flooding.
Even though there was no threat from a tsunami, Indonesia's Meteorology, Climatology, and Geophysical Agency issued a warning about possible aftershocks. The organisation established the initial magnitude of the earthquake to be 6.4. Initial earthquake estimates frequently differ.
Yogyakarta is a centuries-old epicentre of Javanese culture and the residence of numerous royal dynasties. Both the towering Hindu temple complex of Prambanan and the ninth-century Borobudur, which is home to hundreds of Buddha statues and relief panels on its nine stone tiers piled like a wedding cake, are UNESCO World Heritage Sites. The province also has Mount Merapi, the nation's most active volcano.
Despite inflicting more than 130,000 injuries and killing over 6,200 people in Yogyakarta in 2006, the two temples sustained fairly minor damage.Due to its location on the "Ring of Fire," a chain of volcanoes and fault lines in the Pacific Basin, the country's population of more than 270 million people is often influenced by earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, and tsunamis. In 2004, a tsunami caused by a devastating earthquake in the Indian Ocean killed more than 230,000 people in a dozen different nations, the majority of them in Indonesia's Aceh province.
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