More than 3,000 homes were damaged, officials said, displacing thousands of people
By Ismira Lutfia Tisnadibrata
The death toll from the 5.6-magnitude earthquake that shook Indonesia’s main island of Java on Monday rose to at least 268, the country’s disaster-management agency said, as search-and-rescue teams continued to find bodies under the debris of wrecked homes and other buildings.
The quake caused large-scale destruction in the Cianjur area of West Java and was felt as far away as the capital, Jakarta, around 40 miles northwest. It occurred at a shallow depth of 6.2 miles, leading to violent shaking at the surface.
