The death toll from a 5.6 magnitude earthquake that struck Indonesia has increased to 310 . The earthquake struck the Cianjur region in West Java at about 1:21 p.m.
Jakarta, Indonesia (Indonesia), November 25, : According to CGTN, the death toll from a 5.6 magnitude earthquake that struck Indonesia's West Java Province increased to 310, citing the country's national disaster management department.According to the US Geological Survey (USGS), the 5.6-magnitude earthquake struck the Cianjur region in West Java at about 1:21 p.m. local time on Monday, causing buildings to collapse while school classes were being held, according to CGTN.Earlier, Maj Gen Suharyanto, the head of the BNPB, said the death toll had increased to 271 and that a total of 24 people were missing.Forty people are missing, according to Suharyanto, who said that 56,320 homes were destroyed, most of which were awful.
Victims are likely to abandon their temporary tents and move to these primary shelters, according to the filmmaker.Following earlier revelations of casualty numbers, Indonesian President Joko Widodo said the government would compensate owners of severely damaged homes for USD 3,200 per year, citing Suharyanto.The country is situated on the Ring of Fire, a stretch of land around the Pacific Ocean that triggers regular earthquakes and volcanic activity.It is one of the planet's most seismically active zones, stretching from Japan and Indonesia on one side of the Pacific to California and South America on the other.In 2004, a 9.1 magnitude earthquake struck 14 countries, killing 226,000 people along the Indian Ocean coast, most of whom were in Indonesia.