Death toll of earthquake in Indonesia rises to 310

The death toll of the earthquake hitting Indonesia’s West Java province increased to 310, Indonesia’s national disaster management Agency said on Friday

“The search operation carried out by rescuers found more bodies on Friday, and 24 others were still missing,” head of the national disaster management Agency Suharyanto told a press conference.

On Thursday, the agency reported that the tremor destroyed 56,311 houses and displaced 62,545 residents in Cianjur district.

Indonesia is located in the most seismic region on the planet, part of the shingle (a powerful tectonic fault), around the Pacific Ocean.

Seismologists in this region record between 6,000 and 7,000 earthquakes per year with magnitudes above 4 on the Richter scale.

E.M