A powerful 6.5-magnitude earthquake strick eastern Indonesia late
Friday, but no tsunami warning was immediately issued, US seismologists said. but
there were no reports of damage or casualties.The earthquake hit at 5:02 p.m. local time (1002 GMT Friday), the US
Geological Survey said, and was centered three kilometers (two miles)
east-southeast of Andekantor in the Sumba region at a depth of 30 kilometers.The
Indonesian disaster mitigation agency said there were no immediate reports of
damage or casualties.“Currently our teams are still checking whether there have
been any damages or casualties,” the agency spokesman Sutopo Purwo Nugroho told
Indonesia sits on the Pacific “Ring of Fire” where tectonic plates collide,
causing frequent seismic and volcanic activity in the region.A 6.9-magnitude quake that struck in the Banda Sea in December sparked panic
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