A strong earthquake has shaken Indonesia’s easternmost area of Papua, however there have been no quick experiences of significant injury or casualties.
The US Geological Survey stated the magnitude 6.5 quake was centred 162km northeast of Abepura, a subdistrict in Jayapura, the capital of Papua province. It occurred at a depth of 10km.
Indonesia’s Meteorology, Climatology and Geophysical Company stated there was no hazard of a tsunami however warned of attainable aftershocks because the earthquake was centred inland.
With a inhabitants of solely 62,250, Abepura is one in all Indonesia’s least-populated cities. In February, one other shallow earthquake shook the province, killing 4 individuals who had been unable to flee when a floating restaurant collapsed into the ocean.
Indonesia, an enormous archipelago of greater than 270 million individuals, is regularly hit by earthquakes and volcanic eruptions due to its location on the Ring of Hearth, an arc of volcanoes and fault traces within the Pacific Basin.
A magnitude 5.6 earthquake on November 21 killed no less than 331 individuals and injured practically 600 in West Java’s Cianjur metropolis. It was the deadliest in Indonesia since a 2018 quake and tsunami in Sulawesi killed greater than 4300 individuals.
In 2004, a particularly highly effective Indian Ocean quake set off a tsunami that killed greater than 230,000 individuals in a dozen nations, most of them in Indonesia’s Aceh province.
