Quake shakes part of east Indonesia, people warned off beach
PTI, Jun 16, 2021, 2:46 PM IST
Jakarta: A shallow, 5.8 magnitude undersea earthquake shook parts of eastern Indonesia on Wednesday, cracking some walls and sending panicked coastal residents in Maluku province to higher ground.
The Meteorology, Climatology and Geophysics Agency said there was no threat of a large tsunami, although the sea level rose about 0.5 meters, probably due to an underwater avalanche.
The chief of the Maluku Disaster Mitigation Agency, Henri Far Far, said villagers along the coast in Tehoru subdistrict panicked because of the earthquake and were told to move to higher ground. He said the walls and floors of some buildings cracked.
The US Geological Survey said the earthquake was centred about 10 kilometres (6 miles) under the sea 70 kilometres from Amahai city on Seram Island in Maluku province.
Shallow earthquakes tend to cause more damage.
Indonesia, a vast archipelago of 260 million people, is frequently struck by earthquakes and volcanic eruptions because of its location on the “Ring of Fire,” an arc of volcanoes and fault lines in the Pacific Basin.
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