One killed as earthquake jolts Java island
AFP, Jakarta
One person was killed and four people injured when an earthquake measuring 5.2 on the Richter scale rocked Indonesia's Java island Wednesday, radio and seismologists said. The quake also left many houses damaged in the hardest-hit district of Garut in West Java province and cut power, Elshinta radio said. The inland quake occurred at 12:55 pm (0555 GMT), 43 kilometers (25 miles) south of Bandung, the capital of West Java, the Metereology and Geophysics Agency said. Elshinta radio said that one man died when his house collapsed. The report said an elementary school building in Bandung also collapsed but no one was injured in that incident. Police could not confirm the reported casualties but said hundreds of residents in the Samarang area of Garut took to the street to protest drilling work for a steam turbine power plant which they said caused the earthquake. "I'm trying to convince them that the earthquake was not caused by the drilling," Garut police spokesman Commissioner Edi Haryanto told AFP.
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