No tsunami alert was once issued by means of Indonesia’s Meteorology, Climatology and Geophysics Company.
Indonesia, an unlimited archipelago of greater than 270 million other folks, is continuously hit by means of earthquakes and volcanic eruptions as a result of its location at the “Ring of Hearth,” an arc of volcanoes and fault traces within the Pacific Basin.
A magnitude 5.6 earthquake on Nov. 21 killed no less than 331 other folks and injured just about 600 in West Java’s Cianjur town. It was once the deadliest in Indonesia since a 2018 quake and tsunami in Sulawesi killed about 4,340 other folks.
In 2004, a particularly robust Indian Ocean quake activate a tsunami that killed greater than 230,000 other folks in a dozen international locations, maximum of them in Indonesia’s Aceh province.
