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Mon, 06/29/2009 - 14:45
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EARTHQUAKE JOLTS TUAL EARLY MONDAY
Jakarta, June 29 (ANTARA) - An earthquake measuring 5.1 on the Richter Scale jolted Tual, Maluku Province, on Monday at 00.41 am Western Indonesian Standard Time.
The earthquake's epicenter was located at 5.1 degrees southern latitude, 133.50 degrees eastern longitude, at a depth of 10 km below sea level, according to information from the Meteorological, Geophysics and Climatology Agency (BMKG) here on Monday.
The temblor was around 117 km northeast of Tual, Maluku, 141 km southwest of Kiamana, Papua Province, 256 km southeast of Fakfak, West Papua Province, 280 km southwest of Nabire, Papua, and 334 km of Keawkwa, Papua.
The earthquake did not have potential to cause a subsequent tsunami.
Meanwhile, a tectonic earthquake measuring 5.0 on the Richter scale jolted the Ujung Kulon area in Banten at 2:23 local time last Thursday morning (June 25).
But there was no immediate report of tsunami and casualties or material damage from the Thursday morning earthquake.
On Wednesday (June 24), a 5.1 magnitude earthquake also rocked Ujung Kulon at 11:33 p.m. with the temblor's epicenter located at 25 degrees southern latitude and 104.80 degrees eastern longitude at a depth of 30 kilometers below sea level.
An earthquake measuring 5.3 on the Richter scale also jolted Kaimana waters in West Papua on Tuesday morning, June 23, 2009 with the epicenter located 118 kilometers southeast of Kaimana, 171 kilometers northeast of Tual (Maluku), and 22 km southwest of Nabire (Papua Province), at a depth of 10 kilometers under the sea level.
In the same day on Tuesday at 4:25 in the morning, another earthquake measuring 4.7 on the Richter scale also rocked Bengkulu in Sumatra.
Indonesia is prone to seismic upheavals due to its location on the so-called Pacific "Ring of Fire", an area of volcanoes and fault lines encircling the Pacific Basin.
The most powerful and devastating one hitting the country was an 8.9 magnitude earthquake, triggering massive tsunami which claimed more than 200,000 lives in Aceh province on December 26, 2004.
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The earthquake's epicenter was located at 5.1 degrees southern latitude, 133.50 degrees eastern longitude, at a depth of 10 km below sea level, according to information from the Meteorological, Geophysics and Climatology Agency (BMKG) here on Monday.
The temblor was around 117 km northeast of Tual, Maluku, 141 km southwest of Kiamana, Papua Province, 256 km southeast of Fakfak, West Papua Province, 280 km southwest of Nabire, Papua, and 334 km of Keawkwa, Papua.
The earthquake did not have potential to cause a subsequent tsunami.
Meanwhile, a tectonic earthquake measuring 5.0 on the Richter scale jolted the Ujung Kulon area in Banten at 2:23 local time last Thursday morning (June 25).
But there was no immediate report of tsunami and casualties or material damage from the Thursday morning earthquake.
On Wednesday (June 24), a 5.1 magnitude earthquake also rocked Ujung Kulon at 11:33 p.m. with the temblor's epicenter located at 25 degrees southern latitude and 104.80 degrees eastern longitude at a depth of 30 kilometers below sea level.
An earthquake measuring 5.3 on the Richter scale also jolted Kaimana waters in West Papua on Tuesday morning, June 23, 2009 with the epicenter located 118 kilometers southeast of Kaimana, 171 kilometers northeast of Tual (Maluku), and 22 km southwest of Nabire (Papua Province), at a depth of 10 kilometers under the sea level.
In the same day on Tuesday at 4:25 in the morning, another earthquake measuring 4.7 on the Richter scale also rocked Bengkulu in Sumatra.
Indonesia is prone to seismic upheavals due to its location on the so-called Pacific "Ring of Fire", an area of volcanoes and fault lines encircling the Pacific Basin.
The most powerful and devastating one hitting the country was an 8.9 magnitude earthquake, triggering massive tsunami which claimed more than 200,000 lives in Aceh province on December 26, 2004.
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