The tremor was felt over a large part of Java and as far away as the islands of Bali and Lombok.
The quake struck at 4:55 pm local time , the USGS said, with Indonesia's geological agency ruling out a tsunami after the epicentre was detected at a depth of 594 kilometres .
Friday's quake hit roughly 160 kilometres northwest of Surabaya, Indonesia's second-most populous city that is home to more than two million people."In Surabaya, it was barely felt, but some lamps were swaying," said an AFP reporter who felt the tremor"for a while". In Yogyakarta, a teacher who had been hosting an online lecture said the quake interrupted his class.
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