Bengkulu (Indonesia): An earthquake of magnitude 4.6 on the Richter scale struck 62 km West of Bengkulu, Indonesia on Wednesday, the United States Geological Survey (USGS) reported. Bengkulu is the capital of the Indonesian province of Bengkulu. The earthquake occurred at 04:09:29 (UTC+05:30) and hit Bengkulu at a depth of 48.8 km, the USGS informed. The earthquake's epicentre was 3.891°S and 101.714°E, respectively. No casualties have yet been reported. Further details are awaited.
Earlier in February, a 6.8-magnitude earthquake struck off Indonesia's eastern province of North Maluku, but did not cause casualties or damages, authorities said. The earthquake occurred at 03:02 a.m. local time on 24 February (2002 GMT Thursday) with its epicentre located 133 km northwest of Morotai Island district and a depth of 112 km under the seabed, and did not trigger a tsunami, the country's meteorology, climatology and geophysics agency said.
The tremors of the earthquake were also felt in the nearby province of North Sulawesi, according to the agency. So far, the tremors of the quake did not cause damages on buildings or infrastructure facilities, said Abdul Muhari, spokesman of the National Disaster Management and Mitigation Agency as quoted by Xinhua news agency report.
"There are no initial reports of damages or casualties after the earthquake," the spokesman had told Xinhua on the phone. "The residents in the Morotai Island district felt the tremors, but they were not panic," Yusri A Kasim, head of the emergency unit of the disaster agency in North Maluku province, had told Xinhua by phone. Indonesia sits on a vulnerable quake-hit zone called "the Pacific Ring of Fire". (ANI)
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