A 5.6-magnitude earthquake jolted the Indonesian capital Jakarta and parts of West Javaon Friday, but there were no reports of injury or structural damage, officials said. The tremblor rocked Jakarta, parts of West Java and Lampung in Southern Sumatra at about 11:17 a.m. (0417 GMT), said Jabar, an official at Jakarta's Meteorology and Geophysics Agency. Jabar, who like many Indonesians uses only one name, said the earthquake's epicentre was in the Sunda Straits, between the islands of Java and Sumatra. It took place at about 69 kilometres west of Panaitan, an island about 200 kilometres southwest of Jakarta, about 49 kilometres beneath the seabed. He said there were no immediate reports of injury or damage from the quake, the latest in series tremblors to hit Indonesia in recent weeks. Two hours earlier an earthquake measuring 5.0 on the Richter scale shook the West Java capital of Bandung and nearby regions, seismologists said, adding that the inland quake occurred at 9:06 a.m. (0206 GMT). Officials said the epicentre was 19 kilometres south of the Bandung city, some 135 kilometres southeast of Jakarta. Indonesia has been shaken by a series of earthquakes since the December 26 massive quake which generated a tsunami that killed more than 164,000 people in Indonesia alone, mainly in Aceh on the northern end of Sumatra island. An 6.7 earthquake centred on the same Indian Ocean geological faultline killed more than 600 people as scores of concrete buildings collapsed on the Indonesian island of Nias.
