1st LD Writethru: 6.5-magnitude earthquake hits off western Indonesia, no tsunami alert issued

JAKARTA, April 28 (Xinhua) -- An undersea quake with a magnitude of 6.5 jolted western Indonesia's West Java province on Saturday evening, without triggering giant waves, the country's meteorology, climatology and geophysics agency said.

The earthquake occurred at 23:29 Jakarta time (1629 GMT) on Saturday with its epicenter located 151 km southwest of Garut regency and a depth of 10 km, the agency said.