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Indonesia, a seismically active archipelago of 270 million people, is prone to seismic upheaval because of its location on major geological faults known as the Pacific “Ring of Fire.” | Photo Credit: AFP A strong magnitude 6.1 earthquake shook the southern part of Indonesia’s main island of Java on April 27, but there were no…
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Indonesia is prone to earthquakes because of its position on vulnerable quake-hit zone Jakarta: An undersea quake with a magnitude of 6.5 jolted Indonesia’s West Java province on Saturday night, without triggering giant waves, the country’s meteorology, climatology and geophysics agency said. The earthquake occurred at 23:29 Jakarta time (1629 GMT) on Saturday with its…
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