At least 20 people were killed and about 300 others were wounded with an earthquake on Monday, shook the Indonesian capital, and it was not immediately reports of damage.
The earthquake force reached 5. 4 degrees and hit near towns to the south of Jakarta, according to the US Geological Survey.
The Meteorological Agency, Climate Science and Geophysics in Indonesia had previously reported that the intensity of the earthquake reached 5.
6 degrees and that it struck near the town of Sangour, 100 km from Jakarta.
Initially, there were no immediate reports of human injuries or incidents in the capital, where the people rushed to get out of their buildings.
Maydita Walo, a 22 -year -old lawyer, described the panic among the employees who rushed out of the building when the earthquake occurred.
“I was working when the land started shaking under me. I clearly felt the earthquake.
I tried not to do something to understand what was happening but it increased strength and continued for a while,” she said.
“I feel a simple dizzy and my legs are tired because I got off the stairs from the fourteenth floor,” she added.
France Presse journalists who were working in their offices were asked in Burj in Jakarta, to evacuate the building.
Indonesia is witnessing earthquakes frequently because of its location on the “Fire Belt” in the Pacific Ocean, which is an arc of severe seismic activity as tectonic plates that extend from Japan collide through Southeast Asia and across the Pacific Basin..
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