A magnitude 6.05 earthquake struck Java, Indonesia, on Friday, the German Research Center for Geosciences (GFZ) reported. Reuters.
The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 kilometers (6.21 miles), the agency added.
Previous earthquakes
A magnitude 6.8 earthquake struck off the coast of Indonesia’s Talaud Islands on January 10, the GFZ said.
GFZ mentioned that the earthquake occurred at a depth of 77 kilometers (47.85 miles).
Indonesia’s geophysics agency BMKG recorded a slightly higher magnitude of 7.1 at a depth of 17 kilometers and observed some aftershocks.
BMKG stated that the earthquakes are not expected to generate tsunami waves.
Residents of Manado, located on the northern tip of Sulawesi island, reported feeling the shaking strongly, but there were no immediate reports of damage.
On the morning of December 28, a magnitude 4.6 earthquake struck northern Sumatra, the National Center for Seismology (NCS) said.
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Previously, on December 3, North Sumatra experienced a magnitude 4.4 earthquake.
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On November 26, North Sumatra was also hit by a magnitude 4.5 earthquake.
In early October, a stronger earthquake, measuring 6.6 on the Richter scale, struck West Papua, Indonesia, according to the NCS. The earthquake occurred at 11:57 am (IST), with epicenter at latitude 2.26 degrees south and longitude 138.86 degrees east, at a depth of 55 kilometers.
Earthquakes, volcanic eruptions and tsunamis frequently affect Indonesia, a nation of more than 270 million people, due to its location on the “Ring of Fire.”
The Ring of Fire, or Circum-Pacific Belt, is a path along the Pacific Ocean characterized by active volcanoes and frequent earthquakes.
It is a horseshoe-shaped belt approximately 40,000 kilometers long and about 500 kilometers wide, containing two-thirds of the world’s total volcanoes and 90 percent of the Earth’s earthquakes.
