Folks wait outdoors after evacuating a market following an earthquake in Pekanbaru, Indonesia, on Feb. 25, 2022. (AP Photograph/Panji Rahmat)
PADANG, INDONESIA --
A powerful and shallow earthquake shook Indonesia's Sumatra island on Friday, killing seven individuals and injuring 85, whereas inflicting panic on the island and in neighboring Malaysia and Singapore.
The magnitude 6.2 earthquake struck about 66 kilometers (41 miles) north-northwest of Bukittinggi, a hilly city in West Sumatra province, in response to the U.S. Geological Survey. It was centered about 12 kilometers (7.4 miles) beneath the Earth's floor.
A minimum of 4 individuals, together with two kids, have been killed in Pasaman district and three individuals died within the neighboring district of West Pasaman. A minimum of 410 homes and buildings have been broken, the Nationwide Catastrophe Mitigation Company stated.
Greater than 5,000 individuals fled their properties to non permanent shelters, principally in devastated areas of Pasaman and West Pasaman districts, company spokesperson Abdul Muhari stated in an announcement.
"We're nonetheless specializing in search and rescue efforts for the victims," Muhari stated.
Authorities have been nonetheless investigating the total extent of the harm.
Folks ran out of their homes in search of safer locations when the earthquake struck, stated Ahmad Nur, a resident of Talamau village in West Pasaman district. He stated he was making ready to open his store in a close-by market and returned house to test on his household. His home was broken and his spouse was in ache as a result of her leg had been hit by particles, he stated.
"Thank God ... my spouse and our two children managed to flee when the partitions began to tumble," Nur stated. "The quake destroyed all the things in my home, however I am grateful that my spouse and youngsters are secure ... with solely minor accidents."
He stated he and different survivors arrange makeshift tents close to the federal government workplace and have been awaiting aid from the federal government or volunteers.
Dwikorita Karnawati, head of the Meteorology, Climatology and Geophysical Company, stated there was no hazard of a tsunami however warned of potential aftershocks.
Tv studies confirmed panicked individuals speeding into the streets in Padang, the capital of West Sumatra province, and sufferers in a hospital in West Pasaman being evacuated from the constructing. The studies additionally confirmed streams full of mud from landslides triggered by the earthquake, and a mosque, a faculty and several other homes that have been flattened.
Folks in neighboring Malaysia and Singapore additionally felt the tremors. A video on social media confirmed residents gathering within the streets after high-rise buildings in Kuala Lumpur swayed for a number of seconds. Witnesses stated their doorways and chairs shook and images and work swayed on the partitions.
Indonesia, an unlimited archipelago of greater than 270 million individuals, is regularly struck by earthquakes, volcanic eruptions and tsunamis due to its location on the "Ring of Hearth," an arc of volcanoes and fault strains within the Pacific Basin.
In January 2021, a magnitude 6.2 earthquake killed a minimum of 105 individuals and injured almost 6,500 in West Sulawesi province.
A robust Indian Ocean quake and tsunami in 2004 killed almost 230,000 individuals in a dozen international locations, most of them in Indonesia.
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