6.4-magnitude earthquake jolts Indonesia, not tsunami alert

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An earthquake measuring 6.4 on the Richter scale jolted Indonesia’s Bengkulu province, authorities mentioned, including that no casualties or damages have been reported. The quake additionally had no potential to trigger a tsunami, Alfath Abubakar, an official on the meteorology and geophysics company, informed Xinhua information company.

The company earlier reported that the quake was at 6.5-magnitude earlier than revising it down to six.4, he mentioned.

The quake struck at 7.52 p.m. on Wednesday, with the epicentre at 80 km southwest Enggano Island and a depth at 10 km below seabed, Abubakar mentioned.

The depth of the quake was felt at II to III MMI (Modified Mercalli Intensity) within the island and II MMI in Bengkulu metropolis and Kepahiang district, the official mentioned.

In Enggano Island, the hardest-hit space, the jolts trigger damages or casualties, mentioned Welson Hendri, head of emergency unit of catastrophe administration company in North Bengkulu district the place the island is positioned.

“I have called the head of the sub-district of Enggano, there were no buildings damaged or people injured. The situation was calm,” he informed Xinhua.

Earlier on Wednesday, a tsunami warning had been issued after an enormous undersea earthquake measuring 7.7 on the Richter scale struck a area between Australia and Fiji and north of New Zealand.

The preliminary temblor was adopted by no less than three different earthquakes within the South Pacific area with magnitudes starting from 5.7 to six.1 in a span of over an hour. This area, in addition to Indonesia,are steadily hit by earthquakes as they lie on a weak quake-hit zone referred to as “the Pacific Ring of Fire”.

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