5.5-magnitude quake jolts Pacitan
(The Jakarta Post, Jakarta, Indonesia)
The Meteorology, Climatology and Geophysics Agency (BMKG) through its Twitter account @infoBMKG announced that an earthquake measuring 5.5 on the Richter Scale jolted Pacitan, East Java, at 5:45 p.m.
No casualties have been reported.
The tremor was felt as far away as Yogyakarta, Surakarta and Blitar.
The epicenter was 93-kilometers northwest of Pacitan at a depth of 10-kilometers.
Actor Butet Kertarajasa, on his Twitter account @masbutet, said he had felt the earthquake in Bantul, Yogyakarta, while activist Illian Deta Sari, who is currently in Klaten, tweeted via her account @illiandeta that the earthquake was strong.
(The Jakarta Post, 8 August 2013)
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