INDONESIA (The Jakarta Post) : Two strong earthquakes hit Java's southern coast Saturday but left no one dead or injured.
The head of the data and information division at the Yogyakarta Meteorology and Geophysics Agency, Tiar Prasetya, said the quakes measured 5.3 and 6.0 on the Richter scale.
He said the first quake took place at 2:47 p.m., with its epicenter located 194 kilometers southeast of Wonosari city in Yogyakarta.
"Since the epicenter was far away and out at sea at a depth of 42 km, the impact was hardly felt by people and there was no threat of a tsunami," Tiar said.
The second quake hit at 5:10 p.m. and was also unlikely to have caused a tsunami, with its epicenter 739 km from Ujung Kulon in West Java at a depth of 295 km.
He said the quakes were caused by shifting of the Indo-Pacific and Australian plates.
"Every year, there is a 7 centimeter shift and each movement causes energy accumulation and earthquakes can happen anytime," he said. "But when a quake will take place again, no one knows."
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