Lebak: A 5.2-magnitude earthquake rocked the Lebak District area in Banten Province at around 6:41 a.m. Western Indonesia Time (WIB) on Thursday, February 14, 2019.
"We have received report that the earthquake, measuring 5.2 on Richter scale, did not cause fatalities. None of the local residents got killed or wounded," Lebak Disaster Mitigation Agency head Kaprawi told reporters this morning.
Acording to the official, several residents living in the coastal areas of Lebak District, which was close to the earthquake's epicenter, felt the tremors.
The earthquake did not trigger panic among the local people, who have become accustomed to experiencing such a situation, as the southern coastal areas of Lebak District are often hit by earthquakes.
"We have, so far, not received reports of casualties from the people living in the district's southern coastal areas," Kaprawi revealed.
The quake's epicenter was located some 79 kilometers (km) southwest of Lebak District, at a depth of 21 km.
Despite the fact that the earthquake did not potentially trigger a tsunami, he urged the local residents to remain on alert to strengthen disaster risk reduction.
Earthquakes regularly rock various parts of Indonesia due to the fact that the country lies on the Circum-Pacific Belt, also known as the Ring of Fire, where several tectonic plates meet and cause frequent volcanic and seismic activities.
According to Head of BMKG Dwikorita Karnawati, Indonesia was hit by 11,577 earthquakes, including several of them that had caused serious casualties throughout 2018, with the number increasing significantly as compared to that in 2017.
The agency recorded that the earthquakes, with magnitudes of less than five, dominated the occurrences, while those, with magnitudes of over five, were recorded at 297 instances.
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