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Monday, January 07, 2019
No reports of damage or tsunami - yet
USGS
01/07/2019
USGS
01/07/2019
JAKARTA —
An earthquake with a revised magnitude of 6.6 struck 174 km (108 miles) north-northwest of the city of Ternate in Indonesia's Molucca islands on Sunday, followed by a series of aftershocks, but with no tsunami risk, the U.S. Geological Survey said.
According to the United States Geological Survey (USGS), a massive 6.6 magnitude earthquake struck 173 km north-northwest of the island of Ternate at a depth of 60.5 km on Sunday. Earlier USGS data suggested that the quake measured 7.0 in magnitude.
The disaster comes just a day after a 5.4 earthquake with its epicentre located 180 km south of Ternate.There are no reports on the possibility of a new tsunami.
Indonesia, located in a seismically active zone known as the Ring of Fire, regularly suffers from powerful earthquakes.
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