A powerful earthquake killed more than 160 people in Indonesia's West Java province on Monday, with rescuers searching for survivors trapped under the rubble amid a series of aftershocks.

The epicentre of the 5.6 magnitude quake was near the town of Cianjur in mountainous West Java, about 75 km (45 miles) southeast of the capital, Jakarta. The region is home to over 2.5 million people.

West Java governor Ridwan Kamil said on Instagram that 162 people had been killed and 326 were injured.

Poster Comment:

As a former Californian, 5.6 is nothing. A 7.6 is exponentially stronger. The Richter scale is logarithmic. An 8.0 in SoCal means no freeways, no roads, no water, no food, no electricity, no hospitals, no jails, no fire department, no gasoline , no food stamps, no police for 20 million people.