JAKARTA (Xinhua): An earthquake with a magnitude of 5.0 jolted 251km North of Agats, Indonesia at 08:24:30 GMT on Saturday, the US Geological Survey said.
The epicenter, with a depth of 64.9 km, was initially determined to be at 3.28 degrees south latitude and 138.28 degrees east longitude.
No tsunami warning was issued as the tremors would not trigger giant waves, it added.
Indonesia, an archipelagic nation made of thousands of islands, has been frequently hit off by earthquakes for its position on a vulnerable quake-jolted area called "the Pacific Ring of Fire."
A magnitude 5.6 earthquake on Nov. 21 killed at least 331 people and injured nearly 600 in West Java’s Cianjur city. It was the deadliest in Indonesia since a 2018 quake and tsunami in Sulawesi killed 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 provinc
