6.1 magnitude quake jolts East Indonesia

JAKARTA: A 6.1-magnitude earthquake rocked Indonesia's eastern province of Maluku on Thursday, but did not trigger giant waves, the country's meteorology, climatology and geophysics agency said according to reports from Bernama-Xinhua..

According to Xinhua, the earthquake, which occurred at 12.44 pm Jakarta time (0544 GMT), was centred 176 km northeast of Maluku Barat Daya district with a depth of 10 km under the seabed.