Aftermath of series of earthquakes in East Java, Indonesia

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So, on March 22, something pretty intense happened over in East Java. There was this big earthquake, like a super strong shaking of the ground, measuring 6.5 on the scale they use to measure earthquakes. It hit the Tuban area pretty hard, and it happened at 3:52 in the afternoon local time.

Now, this earthquake didn't just come out of nowhere. Earlier that day, there were two smaller earthquakes, kind of like warnings. One was a 6.0 magnitude quake at 11:22 in the morning, and the other was a 5.3 magnitude quake about an hour later.

The worst damage was on Bawean Island, in the Gresik district. Lots of houses and even some religious buildings, like mosques, got wrecked. Luckily, nobody got hurt, but you can imagine how scared everyone was.

Pretty much every village on Bawean Island had some damage from the shaking. And it wasn't just there. Even in Surabaya, which is pretty far away, people felt it. Furniture was moving around in buildings, and some hospitals got messed up too.

One shopping mall in Surabaya got cracked walls, and they had to evacuate everyone for a while. And get this – the shaking was felt in other places like Jakarta and Yogyakarta too.

After the big earthquake, there were lots of smaller ones, like little aftershocks, over 60 of them by the end of the day.

This earthquake stuff seems to be happening more and more all around the world, not just in one place. Some smart people are talking about it, trying to figure out why it's happening and what we can do about it. You can read more about it in a report they talked about at this forum called "Global Crisis. Responsibility."