A moderate quake measuring 5.1 on the Richter scale hit Nabire, Papua province, on Sunday at 11.43 West Indonesian Time (WIB). According to information from the Meteorology, Climatology and Geophysics Agency (BMKG), the quake was centered 3.35 degrees southern latitude and 135.90 degrees eastern longitude at a depth of 72 kilometers. Earlier on July 2, a magnitude 6.2 quake hit Central Aceh and Bener Meriah districts in Aceh province. About 33 people were killed, 33 missing, and 92 others injured seriously and 352 lightly because of the quake. The quake also left 5,516 houses damaged heavily, 2,750 moderately and 5,593 lightly. It also damaged 77 government office buildings, consisting of 48 heavily, 20 moderately and nine lightly, 136 mosques, consisting of 36 heavily, 25 moderately and 75 lightly, and a general hospital and tens of public health service posts, ANTARA reported.
