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Magnitude-6.0 quake strikes off East Nusa Tenggara
The agency said the epicentre of the quake was out at sea at a depth of 75 kilometres (46.6 miles) in the eastern region, close to Timor Leste.
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The earthquake struck at 2:33 p.m. Jakarta time with an epicenter 56 kilometers northwest of Saumlaki village in Maluku at a depth of 63 kilometers. The scale of the earthquake then updated by the agency to the magnitude of 6. (Twitter/@infoBMKG)
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n earthquake of magnitude 6.0 struck off East Nusa Tenggara on Tuesday, the geophysics agency said, adding there was no potential for tsunami.
The agency said the epicentre of the quake was out at sea at a depth of 75 kilometres (46.6 miles) in the eastern region, close to Timor Leste.
The quake was felt weakly on land in some areas on East Nusa Tenggara but there were no immediate reports of damage, the agency said.
Indonesia straddles the so-called "Pacific Ring of Fire", a highly seismically active zone, where different plates on the Earth's crust meet and create a large number of earthquakes and volcano activity.
In late June, a magnitude 6.4 earthquake struck off Java, injuring at least 10 people, while one person died of suspected heart attack during the quake, the country's disaster mitigation agency (BNPB) said.
The tremor caused minor damage to hundreds of houses, some offices, health and education facilities scattered in the region of Yogyakarta and Central Java province.
