Jakarta, July 14
A magnitude 7.3 earthquake struck the Moluccas islands in eastern Indonesia on Sunday, the US Geological Survey reported, killing one person and causing panic among residents.
The quake occurred at a depth of 10 km in an area 168 km south-southeast of the city of Ternate, it said. Indonesia’s meteorology agency recorded the quake at 7.2 magnitude and was not in danger of causing a tsunami. The disaster mitigation agency tweeted a woman in South Halmahera died due to the quake, without giving further details. Within less than four hours since the main quake, the disaster agency recorded 30 aftershocks, it added. The quake hit hours after a magnitude 6.6 struck offshore Western Australia, south of Indonesia.
Iksan Subur, an official with Indonesia’s disaster mitigation agency based in the regency of South Halmahera, near the quake’s epicentre, said people panicked and ran out of their houses. — Reuters
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