Earthquake again rocks Indonesian capital and surroundings 2006-07-19 22:52:48

    

A man holds the body of a one-year-old baby Nela who was killed by the tsunami in the tsunami-hit Pangandaran, Indonesia, July 19, 2006. (Xinhua Photo)

    JAKARTA, July 19 (Xinhua) -- An earthquake again rocked Jakarta, capital of Indonesia, at about 17:58 local time on Wednesday, causing panic among people in high-rise buildings and shopping malls.

    An official of the Meteorology and Geophysics Agency, Hendro, said the tremor measured on three up to four on the Modified Mercalli Intensity (MMI) scale.

    Until now, the epicenter and its measurement on the Richter scale were still unknown, Antara news agency reported.

    Earlier, the Indonesian Meteorology and Geophysics Agency said an earthquake measuring 6.2 in magnitude, striking the Sunda Straits separating the country's Sumatra island from Java island.

    But the tremor appeared to be stronger than the quake which rocked Jakarta on Monday when a magnitude 6.8 quake followed by a tsunami hit southern coastal areas of Java island, Hendro said.

    A quake measuring 5.9 on the Richter Scale was also reported to have occurred in West Java on Wednesday with its epicenter in Ujung Kulon, around 150 kilometers west of Jakarta. Enditem

        Indonesia's tsunami death toll reaches 525, 273 missing  2006-07-19 19:33:33

    JAKARTA, July 19 (Xinhua) -- At least 525 people were killed, 273 still missing and 383 wounded after tsunami struck onto southern coastal areas of West Java and Central Java and Yogyakarta provinces on Monday, Indonesian National Disaster Management Coordination Board said here Wednesday.