Palu, Indonesia (AP) – A magnitude 5.8 undergrowth Earthquake On Sunday morning, shook the eastern part of Indonesia, injuring 29 people, including two in critical condition.
According to the US Geological Survey, the 15 -km (9.3 mi) earthquake in the north of the Pozo district in Central Sulawesi province killed at least 15 afterchox north of the Poso district in the Central Sulawesi province.
No tsunami warning was issued by Indonesian officials.
Indonesia’s National Disaster Mitigen Agency said that most of the injured were taken to the regional government hospital. Most of them were the congregation participating in the service on Sunday morning in a church, on Sunday, the spokesman of the National Disaster Mitigen Agency Abdul Muhari said.
Muhari said, “Amateur videos showing structural damage to the church are moving. Poso disaster mitigation agency continues to assess the area rapidly to determine the initial impact of the earthquake,” Muhari said.
Indonesia is a huge archipelago of over 270 million people Frequent killed Due to the earthquake, due to the volcanic eruptions and tsunamis, due to its location on the “ring of fire”, an arc of volcanic and fault lines in the Pacific Basin.
In 2022, at least 602 people in Sianjur city of West Java killed more than 4,300 people in Indonesia since 5.6 earthquakes, the 2018 earthquake.
In 2004, a highly powerful Indian Ocean earthquake closed a tsunami, killing more than 230,000 people in a dozen countries, most of them in Ash Province in Indonesia.
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Tarigan reported from Jakarta, Indonesia.
Mohammad Taufan and Edna Tarigan, Associated Press