Mild quake struck off East Java
The Jakarta Post, Jakarta | Sat, 05/22/2010 8:51 AM
A magnitude 5.1 earthquake struck off East Java on the early hours of Saturday, but a national monitoring agency said a the quake has no potential to create tsunami.
The Meteorology, Climatology and Geophysics Agency said that the quake hit southwest of East Java's Lumajang area at 2:56 a.m. Jakarta time.
The temblor's epicenter was about 162 kilometers from Lumajang at 25 kilometer beneath the surface.
