A 7.1 magnitude earthquake struck Indonesia’s Banda Sea on Wednesday, the United States Geological Survey (USGS) mentioned, with no rapid studies of injury or casualties.
No tsunami warning was issued for the quake – initially reported as a magnitude 6.9 – which hit at 11:53 a.m. native time (4.53 a.m. GMT), in keeping with the USGS.
The tremor was felt reasonably within the city of Saumlaki within the archipelago’s Tanimbar Islands, in keeping with the Indonesian Meteorological, Climatological and Geophysical Agency, or BMKG.
“The earthquake was quite intense. But the people here were not panicking. We are used to having earthquakes,” Saumlaki resident Lambert Tatang advised Agence France-Presse (AFP).
“Especially after we learned that there was no tsunami threat, so life is just normal now,” the 41-year-old mentioned.
Indonesia experiences frequent earthquakes attributable to its place on the Pacific “Ring of Fire,” an arc of intense seismic exercise that stretches from Japan by means of Southeast Asia and throughout the Pacific basin.
In November final yr, a 5.6 magnitude quake hit the populous West Java province on the nation’s major island of Java, killing 602 individuals.
In 2004, a 9.1 magnitude quake struck the coast of Sumatra and triggered a tsunami that killed 220,000 all through the area, together with about 170,000 in Indonesia.
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