6.4-magnitude earthquake jolts western Indonesia

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By  India Blooms News Service   Dec 04, 2022

Jakarta: A 6.4-magnitude earthquake struck Indonesias western province of West Java on Saturday, but did not trigger a tsunami, the meteorology, climatology, and geophysics agency said.

The quake rocked the province, which has been in an emergency relief effort after being hit by a 5.6-magnitude quake last month, at 16:49 Jakarta time (0949 GMT) with the quakes epicenter situated at 52 km southwest of Garut district and at a depth of 118 km, the agency said.

The agency did not issue a tsunami warning as the tremors did not have the potential to trigger giant waves.

(With UNI inputs)