W. Java fissures scare
NZPA-AFP Jakarta Five thousand people have been evacuated from a village in West Java since Tuesday after land fissures — some up to 5000 metres long and 100 cm wide — started appearing, the English language “Jakarta Post” newspaper reports. The fissures, cracks and
depressions appeared in a 50ha area in Tanjungsari village, Sukabumi regency, and are still spreading, a regency official said. Subterranean movements are suspected to have caused the phenomenon in which about a dozen houses and other buildings have been slightly damaged. Geological experts from
the Ministry of Mines have started investigations and suggested the' area not be used for the cultivation of rice, and that the fissures be filled to prevent water flowing into the inner earth layers, the paper said. The 50ha of damaged land includes 36ha of rice fields, and about seven ha of residences.
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