JAKARTA (Reuters): A magnitude 5.7 quake hit Indonesia's East Java province on Thursday, near the holiday island of Bali, the country's geophysics agency reported.
Reuters could not immediately determine whether the 12-kilometre-deep quake did any damage.
Indonesia, an archipelagic nation made of thousands of islands, has been frequently hit by earthquakes due to its position on a vulnerable quake-jolted area called "the Pacific Ring of Fire."
A magnitude 5.6 earthquake on November 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 province.
