Indonesia was rattled by more than 11,500 earthquakes last year,
almost double the annual average of the past decade, according to the
nation’s meteorological agency.
The archipelago was hit by 11,557 temblors in 2018, with 297 of them packing a magnitude of more than 5 on the Richter scale, according to data from the Meteorology, Climatology and Geophysics Agency.
That was more than the average 6,000 quakes recorded in recent years, Antara news agency reported, citing the meteorological agency’s head, Dwikorita Karnawati.
Indonesia’s 17,000 islands are prone to earthquakes because the country straddles the Pacific Ring of Fire— an arc of fault lines and volcanoes that causes frequent seismic upheavals.
The archipelago was hit by 11,557 temblors in 2018, with 297 of them packing a magnitude of more than 5 on the Richter scale, according to data from the Meteorology, Climatology and Geophysics Agency.
That was more than the average 6,000 quakes recorded in recent years, Antara news agency reported, citing the meteorological agency’s head, Dwikorita Karnawati.
Indonesia’s 17,000 islands are prone to earthquakes because the country straddles the Pacific Ring of Fire— an arc of fault lines and volcanoes that causes frequent seismic upheavals.
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