2009 West Java earthquake
An earthquake occurred on September 2, 2009, at 14:55:01 local time in West Java, Indonesia. The magnitude 7.0 earthquake killed at least 81 people, injured over 1,297, and displaced over 210,000. The quake was felt in the capital Jakarta, although damage there was minimal, and it was Indonesia's deadliest earthquake…
Where it happened
Indonesia, as Wikidata places it.
- Earthquakes
The record
- Date
- September 2, 2009
- Kind
- Earthquake
- Where
- Indonesia
- Country
- Indonesia
What happened
An earthquake occurred on September 2, 2009, at 14:55:01 local time in West Java, Indonesia. The magnitude 7.0 earthquake killed at least 81 people, injured over 1,297, and displaced over 210,000. The quake was felt in the capital Jakarta, although damage there was minimal, and it was Indonesia's deadliest earthquake since the 2006 Pangandaran earthquake and tsunami.
Sources
Wikidata Q745411 (CC0); text from Wikipedia, “2009 West Java earthquake”, CC BY-SA 4.0.