JAKARTA, May 27 (Xinhua) -- The Indonesian Red-Cross (PMI) in cooperation with the International Red-Cross is providing internet services to people seeking family members who might have become victims of Saturday morning's earthquake in Yogyakarta and some areas in Central Java province, Indonesia.

    "The service can be accessed through our tracing and mailing service", the Antara news agency quoted Dede Suryadi, head of PMI's Tracing and Mailing Service, as saying on Saturday.

    Dede said PMI was also providing satellite telephone connections to facilitate communication between quake victims and their family members and relatives in other regions.

    PMI is now gathering data on quake victims being treated in hospitals in Yogyakarta to help people seeking information on their family members and relatives.

    An earthquake measuring 5.9 on the Richter scale rocked Yogyakarta Saturday morning at 5.55 a.m. (2255 GMT, Friday), shattering building structures and killing thousands of people

    The quake's epicenter was located at 8.26 degrees southern latitude and 110.23 degrees eastern longitude at a depth of 33 kilometers below the sea level and about 37.6 kilometers south of Yogyakarta.

    More than 2,700 people were killed in the powerful earthquake, according to Indonesia's social affairs ministry.

    The quake also left 1,017 people seriously injured and 872 others lightly injured and caused a total of 3,024 houses to collapse. Enditem