Moderate earthquake jolts East Java

Moderate earthquake jolts East Java

JAKARTA: A moderate earthquake jolted a small town in East Java
province -- the latest in a series of tremblers to rock the
archipelago in recent months, an official said on Tuesday.

The earthquake, measuring 5.5 on the Richter scale, shook the
town of Malang, over 700 kilometers southeast of Jakarta, on
Monday night, Hariyanto, the local meteorological and geophysics
agency head, was quoted as saying by the state-run Antara news
agency.

No casualties or damage were reported from the quake, which
was centered at 8.52 degrees latitude south and 112.67 degrees
longitude east, Hariyanto said.

A series of moderate and strong earthquakes have shaken the
archipelago in the last few months, with the largest being the
magnitude-9.0 quake on Dec. 26 that triggered tsunamis in the
region and left more than 230,000 people dead or missing in
Indonesia. -- dpa