Bandung, April 28 -- Meteorology, Climatology and Geophysics Agency (BMKG) said that an earthquake with magnitude 6.5 in Garut District, West Java, did not have the potential for a tsunami.

"The modeling results show that this earthquake does not have the potential to cause a tsunami," the head of the BMKG Earthquake and Tsunami Center Daryono said in Bandung on Sunday.

He explained that the tectonic earthquake occurred in the sea on Saturday evening (April 27) at 11:29 p.m. local time at a distance of 156 kilometers southwest of Garut District at a depth of 70 kilometers.

The shock was felt in several districts including Tasikmalaya, Garut, Sukabumi, and Bandung City. However, until Saturday evening, there had been no official report ...