国际英语新闻:Indonesia quake toll reaches 42
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Graphics shows a 7.3-magnitude quake jolting Indonesia at 14:55 p.m. Jakarta time (0755 GMT) with the epicenter at 142 kilometers southwest of Tasik Malaya of West Java, Indonesia, on Sept. 2. |
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Residents take shelter outside their damaged houses in the West Java town of Sukabumi on Sept. 2, 2009. A 7.3-magnitude earthquake hit West Java on Wednesday, leaving some 42 people killed, more than 400 wounded and some 40 still missing. |
Forty others people were still buried by landslide in Cianjur of West Java, Pakaya said.
Over 3,000 houses seriously were damaged and nearly 1,000 other suffered from minor damages in West Java and Central Java, another official of the disaster management agency Panji Syahrial told Xinhua.
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People inspect their collapsed house in the West Java town of Sukabumi on Sept. 2, 2009. A 7.3-magnitude earthquake hit West Java on Wednesday, leaving some 42 people killed, more than 400 wounded and some 40 still missing |
A 7.3 magnitude earthquake struck western parts of Indonesia on Wednesday, causing panic in some cities and potential for tsunami, but the tsunami did not occur.
The quake struck at 2:55 p.m. Jakarta time (0755 GMT) with epicenter at 142 kms southwest Tasik Malaya of West Java and at 30kms in depth, the meteorology agency said.
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Quake victims take shelter in the West Java town of Sukabumi on Sept. 3, 2009. A 7.3-magnitude earthquake hit West Java on Wednesday, leaving some 42 people killed, more than 400 wounded and some 40 still missing |
The USGS reported that the quake was at 7.4 magnitude on the Richter scale and at 68.2 kms under sea bed.
Indonesia with over 230 million people sits on a vulnerable quake-hit zone so called the Pacific Ring of Fire, where two continental plates meet stretching from Western hemisphere to Japan, which causes frequent seismic and volcanic movements.
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A man takes shelter outside his damaged house in the West Java town of Sukabumi on Sept. 2, 2009. A 7.3-magnitude earthquake hit West Java on Wednesday, leaving some 42 people killed, more than 400 wounded and some 40 still missing. |
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