Jakarta – An earthquake of 6.3 magnitude rocked Saumlaki, Maluku province, on Sunday but it activated no tsunami, the Meteorology, Meteorology, and Geophysics Company (BMKG) reported.
The quake which struck at 10.43 WIB (West Indonesia Standard Time) was focused 234 kilometers west of Saumlaki City at a depth of 197 kilometers, the company said.
” Evaluating from its epicenter and hypocenter depth, the quake was a moderate one brought on by the subduction activity in the Banda Sea,” Chief of BMKG Earthquake and Tsunami Center Rahmat Triyono said in a press statement released on Sunday.
The quake was felt by individuals in Saumlaki at Modified Mercalli Strength (MMI) scale II to III and in Dobo at MMI scale II.
The trembling of MMI III might be felt indoors comparable to the motion of a truck, while a quake of MMI II was felt by some individuals and led to the hung light posts shaking.
No injuries or casualties were reported.
Indonesia is found on the geographically active “Pacific Ring of Fire” and holds some 40 percent of the world’s geothermal reserves.
The Ring of Fire, or the Circum-Pacific belt, is the world’s greatest earthquake belt, according to Live Science, owing to geological fault running from Chile to Japan and Southeast Asia.
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