PAPUA (Reuters): An earthquake of magnitude 6.7 struck Papua province in Indonesia on Thursday, the United States Geological Survey (USGS) said.
The quake was at a depth of 70 km (43.5 miles), USGS said.
The epicentre of the quake was about 200 km from the city of Abepura, which has a population of over 62,000, according to USGS.
There was no tsunami warning after the quake, the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center said.
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 last year 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. - Reuters
