Magnitude 5.6 earthquake strikes south of Java, Indonesia -EMSC

(Reuters) -An earthquake of magnitude 5.6 struck Java, Indonesia early on Thursday, the European-Mediterranean Seismological Centre (EMSC) said.

The quake was at a depth of 40 km (24.85 miles), EMSC said.

EMSC had earlier pegged the earthquake at 6.2.

(Reporting by Juby Babu in BengaluruEditing by Chris Reese)