Magnitude 6.7 quake hits offshore eastern Indonesia: USGS
JAKARTA - A 6.7-magnitude earthquake struck off eastern Indonesia on July 14, the US Geological Survey (USGS) said, but a monitor said there was no tsunami threat.
The quake struck at 12:49pm Western Indonesia time (1.49pm Singapore time) and its epicentre was at a depth of 66km around 177km west of the city of Tual in the eastern Maluku province, USGS said.
The Pacific Tsunami Warning Centre said there was no tsunami threat, and Indonesia's geophysics agency said in a social media post the quake 'did not have the potential to cause a tsunami'.
There were no immediate reports of damage or casualties.
The vast archipelago nation experiences frequent earthquakes due to its position on the Pacific 'Ring of Fire', an arc of intense seismic activity where tectonic plates collide, stretching from Japan through South-east Asia and across the Pacific basin.
A magnitude-6.2 quake that shook
Sulawesi in January 2021 killed more than 100 people and left thousands homeless.
In 2018, a magnitude-7.5 quake and subsequent tsunami in Palu on Sulawesi killed more than 2,200 people.
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