JAKARTA - The Makassar Region IV Meteorology, Climatology and Geophysics Agency (BMKG) said that since Thursday, January 14, to Friday, January 15 morning, 47 earthquakes had occurred and two of them had damaged buildings.
"Tectonic earthquakes have occurred 47 times in West Sulawesi and its surroundings," said Syarifuddin, Makassar Regional IV Earthquake Center Staff in Makassar, South Sulawesi, as reported by Antara, Friday, January 15.
He said that the earthquake that occurred on Thursday, January 14, until 11:00 p.m. local time, occurred 28 times with the smallest magnitude 2 on the Richter Scale (SR) to the largest and caused damage, which is above 6 SR.
Syarifuddin explained that earthquakes with the lowest magnitude, which are below two on the Richter Scale (SR), occurred nine times.
Then earthquakes between 3 and under 4 SR occurred 13 times and earthquakes with 4 to 5 SR occurred 3 times. Meanwhile, earthquakes with a magnitude of 5 to below 6 occurred 2 times and an earthquake measuring 6 on the Richter scale occurred once.
He said that 28 earthquakes occurred since Thursday, January 14, until 23.00 WIB. Then the other 19 times were aftershocks since the big earthquake occurred on Friday, January 15, early morning.
"After the devastating earthquake, there have been 19 earthquakes or from early Friday until the morning," he said.
An earthquake with a magnitude of 6.2 occurred in the West Sulawesi region at 02.28 WITA and collapsed many buildings.
The earthquake in Mamuju was centered six kilometers northeast of Majene Regency 2.98 LS-118.94 East Longitude at a depth of 10 kilometers, also damaged a hospital building in Mamuju.
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