2 Days Last, BMKG Quoted 4 Time Susulant Earthquakes Occurring In Cianjur

The 5.6 magnitude earthquake that rocked Cianjur, West Java, made houses in a number of villages, one of which was in Salahuni Village, (ANTARA/Ahmad Fikri)

BANDUNG - The Meteorology, Climatology and Geophysics Agency (BMKG) noted that during the last two days, Sunday and Monday four aftershocks occurred in the Cianjur area, West Java. Earthquake power starts at 1.9-3.0 magnitude. Head of Stageof BMKG Bandung Teguh Rahayu said aftershocks in Cianjur had still occurred since the first earthquake of 5.6 magnitudes to date, bringing the total recorded earthquakes to 447 times. "To date there have been 447 aftershocks, the latest aftershocks with a magnitude of 2.4 on Monday morning, it is possible that aftershocks could occur even though there were no five days," he said when contacted, Antara, Monday, January 2. Teguh explained that the Cianjur earthquake was the largest in the records of earthquakes in West Java throughout 2022 where 1,290 earthquakes were caused by other basic active faults, the subdiction of tectonic plate encounters, to fault activity on land. "Meanwhile, in Cianjur, the earthquake was caused by the activity of the Cugenang Sesar which was just identified by the BMKG, so that of the thousands of earthquakes in West Java, 447 of them occurred in Cianjur," he said. So far, said Teguh, the earthquake that occurred in West Java was triggered by an active fault on the seabed, there were also the faults of Garsela and Cimandiri. Meanwhile, on the first two days of 2023, four earthquakes occurred again in Cianjur, whose vibrations had made residents restless. Residents in several villages who had just returned home after being at the evacuation post for more than a month, rushed out of their homes because they felt a fairly strong earthquake from morning to noon. "The vibration was felt enough, so we rushed out of the house, this morning at 07.00 WIB and at 11.05 WIB, on Sunday afternoon and evening we also felt a fairly strong earthquake. We hope there will be no aftershocks," said Nagrak Village resident, Fauzi Noviandi.