Strong quake strikes Indonesia's Seram island, no tsunami risk

Concrete rubble are seen on the floor of a classroom at Al Anshor Islamic Boarding School after an earthquake in Ambon, Maluku province, Indonesia, September 26, 2019, in this still image from video obtained via social media. Weul Artafella via REUTERS

JAKARTA (Reuters) - An earthquake of magnitude 6.5 hit the island of Seram in Indonesia's eastern province of Maluku on Thursday, damaging to some buildings, but there was no risk of a tsunami, the geophysics agency said.

Disaster officials said the early morning quake, initially measured at a magnitude of 6.8, was felt in towns such as Ambon and Kairatu, waking some residents, who said it felt like trucks rumbling past.