A powerful magnitude 6.5 earthquake hit the area of Papua in japanese Indonesia on Sunday.
The U.S. Geological Survey mentioned the magnitude 6.5 quake was centered 162 kilometers (101 miles) northeast of Abepura, a subdistrict in Jayapura, the capital of Papua province. It occurred at a depth of 10 kilometers (6 miles).
Indonesia’s Meteorology, Climatology and Geophysical Agency mentioned there was no hazard of a tsunami however warned of doable aftershocks because the earthquake was centered in land.
According to the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center in Hawaii, there was no tsunami menace from the quake.
With a inhabitants of simply 62,250, Abepura is one in every of Indonesia’s least populated cities. In February, one other shallow earthquake shook the province, killing 4 individuals who have been unable to flee when a floating restaurant collapsed into the ocean.
Indonesia, an enormous archipelago of greater than 270 million folks, is continuously hit by earthquakes and volcanic eruptions due to its location on the “Ring of Fire,” an arc of volcanoes and fault traces within the Pacific Basin.
on Nov. 21 killed at the least 331 folks and injured practically 600 in West Java’s Cianjur metropolis. It was the deadliest in Indonesia since a 2018 quake and tsunami in Sulawesi killed about 4,340 folks.
In 2004, set off a tsunami that killed greater than 230,000 folks in a dozen nations, most of them in Indonesia’s Aceh province.
Source: www.dailysabah.com