The Indonesian civil protection spokesman, Sutopo Nugroho, announced that the strong 6.5 magnitude quake that hit the island of Java yesterday at 11:47 am local time (about 17:47 pm in Italy), would have caused At the moment, 2 dead, a 62-year-old man and an 80-year-old woman, and about 7 injured. At least 108 houses destroyed and / or damaged. The worst damage appears to have occurred in the Tasikmalaya, Pangandaran and Ciamis regions in western Java.
The shock has affected the whole island. In the capital of Jakarta, about 200 kilometers from the epicenter, the tallest buildings swayed during the strongest shock, which insisted for about 30 seconds.
Over a thousand people were evacuated from the Subakumi area, returning to the early hours of today, when the authorities excluded the possibility of a tsunami.
70 patients from a hospital in the Banyumas district who were evacuated because the shocks caused the ceiling to collapse: "several hospitals were damaged and patients were treated outside".