At least 252 dead, 31 missing and more than 300 injured left the 5.6 magnitude earthquake that shook the Indonesian island of Java, according to a new balance released this Tuesday by the administration of the city of Cianjur.
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Adam, a spokesman for the hardest-hit city administration, and who like many Indonesians goes by only one name, posted the new balance on Instagram. “These are official data,” he said. The previous report reported 162 deaths.
The impact of the earthquake caused serious damage to at least 343 houses and an Islamic boarding school, while Cianjur hospital sustained moderate damage.
Significant damage was also reported to at least four government buildings, three schools, a church and several local businesses, according to the latest official balance.
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Indonesia stands on the so-called Pacific Ring of Firean area of great seismic and volcanic activity in which some 7,000 earthquakes are recorded each year, most of them moderate.
One of the deadliest disasters in the country occurred in 2004, when a strong earthquake in the north of the Indonesian island of Sumatra generated a tsunami. which caused more than 226,000 deaths in a dozen nations bordering the Indian Ocean.
