6.0-magnitude earthquake strikes eastern Indonesia, no tsunami alert issued


JAKARTA: A 6.0-magnitude earthquake jolted Indonesia's eastern Maluku province early Saturday (March 1) without triggering large waves, the country's Meteorology, Climatology, and Geophysics Agency reported.

The tremor struck at 4.58am Jakarta time on Saturday, with the epicenter located 167 km southeast of the Banda Islands at a depth of 158 km beneath the seafloor, the agency said.

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