Local officials say more than a dozen people were killed in Indonesia's 5.6 magnitude earthquake.

 

JAKARTA, Indonesia – A 5.6-magnitude earthquake jolted Indonesia's West Java province on Monday, killing more than a dozen people, according to a local official. According to Herman Suherman, a government official from Cianjur, the town in West Java where the epicentre of the quake was located, up to 20 people died at one hospital in the area. The quake occurred at a depth of 10 kilometres, according to the weather and geophysics agency (BMKG).

For several seconds, the Indonesian capital Jakarta was shaken. Some people evacuated offices in Jakarta's central business district, while others reported feeling buildings shake and seeing furniture move, according to Reuters witnesses. Muchlis, who was in Cianjur at the time of the quake, said he felt "a huge tremor."