JAKARTA, Feb 11 (Reuters): A magnitude 6.0 quake hit near Indonesia's Talaud islands on Saturday at a depth of 11 km (6.8 miles), Indonesia geophysics agency BMKG said via Twitter.
The quake has no potential to trigger tsunami, it said.
Indonesia, a vast archipelago and home to more than 270 million people, is frequently hit by earthquakes and volcanic eruptions because of its location on the “Ring of Fire,” an arc of seismic faults around the Pacific Basin.
A magnitude 5.6 earthquake on Nov. 21 killed at least 331 people in West Java. It was the deadliest in Indonesia since a 2018 quake and tsunami in Sulawesi killing about 4,340 people.
In 2004, an extremely powerful Indian Ocean quake set off a tsunami that killed more than 230,000 people in a dozen countries, most of them in Indonesia’s Aceh province.
In fact, an earthquake shook Indonesia’s easternmost province of Papua on Thursday (Feb 9), killing four people who were unable to escape when a floating restaurant collapsed into the sea.
