Powerful Quakes: 7.0 hits Indonesia and 6.6 hits Japan

~AFP

A powerful quake with a magnitude of 7.0 hit off the eastern Indonesian island of Maluku on Sunday, seismologists said, but no tsunami warning was issued.

The quake struck at 07:47 pm local time (1247 GMT) about 132 kilometres (82 miles) southeast of Labuha, North Maluku province, at a depth of 56 kilometres, the Indonesian Meteorology and Geophysics Agency said.

“There has been no report of casualties so far. There was some shaking felt in several areas but it’s not strong,” the agency’s technical chief Suharjono told AFP.

Indonesia sits on the Pacific “Ring of Fire,” where the meeting of continental plates causes high volcanic and seismic activity.

~RTT News

A strong earthquake, measuring 6.6 on the Richter Scale, hit northeastern Japan Sunday, said Japan Meterological agency.

The quake occurred at 05.08 local time at a depth of 40 kms from the sea level off Fukushima-ken Oki. No casualties have been reported and no tsunami warning has been issued.

It was reported earlier that a quake measuring 7.0 hit Indonesia’s Maluku islands earlier Sunday. On Saturday, a 6.5-magnitude quake shook Manokwari in West Papua province.

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