TEMPO.CO, Jakarta – District 1626 / Bangli Military Command deployed 44 people to help evacuate residents affected by landslides in Trunyan village, Bangli district, Bali, following magnitude 4 tectonics, 8 earthquake In the region.

“Today 44 people have been dispatched. Tomorrow there will be additional joint personnel of 20-30 people from the 18 / Yudha Karya Raksaka Combat Engineer Battalion and the police,” District Military Command Commander Lt. Col. I Gde Putu. Suwardana, said from the city of Denpasar when contacted by phone on Saturday.

There are eight places where landslides blocked the road between the villages of Buahan and Trunyan, he informed.

At one of the landslide sites, four houses were buried, two residents died and two others survived with injuries, he said.

“The falling rocks were as big as cars. It turns out the cliff collapses often. The last incident happened in 2019. However, it was not as damaging as this time around.” , noted the commander.

According to him, besides the earthquake, the disaster was also triggered by dry ground. During this time, most of the residents had been evacuated to the homes of their relatives which were far from the cliff, he said.

“We have not established a refugee camp because the location is not comfortable for the victims. It is for the safety of all residents,” he added.

The shallow earthquake rocked the village at 4:18 a.m. Central Indonesian Standard Time (WITA) on Saturday. Its epicenter was located at 8.32 degrees south latitude and 115.45 degrees east longitude at a depth of 10 kilometers (km), officials said.

At 4:42 a.m. WITA, there were two aftershocks of magnitude 3.8 and magnitude 2.7 earthquake in the region, the Meteorology, Climatology and Geophysics Agency reported.

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