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A shallow 5.6-magnitude earthquake killed at least 56 people and injured hundreds when it damaged buildings and triggered landslides on Indonesia’s main island of Java yesterday.Doctors treated patients outdoors after the quake felt as far away as the capital Jakarta left hospitals without power for several hours.The a quake was centred in the Cianjur region of West Java, according to the United States Geological Survey, with local authorities saying 56 people had been killed and over seven hundred wounded.Head of Cianjur’s local administration Herman Suherman said earlier that majority of deaths were counted in one hospital with most of the victims killed in the ruins of collapsed buildings.Indonesia experiences frequent seismic and volcanic activity due to its position on the Pacific “Ring of Fire”, where tectonic plates collide.A 6.2-magnitude quake that shook Sulawesi island in January 2021 killed more than one hundred people and left thousands homeless.
