M5.1 Earthquake Shakes Jakarta's Thousand Islands Until Tangerang

TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - A tectonic earthquake rattled Thousand Islands or Pulau Seribu, Jakarta on Wednesday, May 15, at 16:42:56 local time, reported the Meteorology, Climatology, and Geophysics Agency (BMKG).

The agency updated its magnitude to 5.1. The epicenter was pinpointed at 5.83 degrees south latitude and 106.63 degrees east longitude, precisely located in the sea 14 kilometers southeast of the island, with a depth of 265 kilometers.

“The epicenter and hypocenter suggest that it was an intermediate quake caused by the activity of the Indo-Australian plate (intraslab event),” the agency’s head of quake and tsunami center, Daryono, said in his statement on Wednesday.

“The results of the source mechanism analysis indicate that the quake had a normal-oblique movement mechanism,” he added.

Based on the estimated shakemap, the tremor was felt in the southern and northern parts of the Thousand Islands, Teluknaga, and Tangerang with an intensity scale of III-IV MMI.

There have been no reports of the damage caused by the shaking, and fortunately, the quake did not have the potential to generate a tsunami.

As of 17:10 local time, the BMKG did not detect any aftershocks.

ERWIN PRIMA

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