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An earthquake of magnitude 6.3 struck Papua Tuesday. Moreover, a province located in eastern Indonesia, announced the American Institute of Geophysics (USGS), the risk of a tsunami having been dismissed.
The epicenter of the earthquake. Nevertheless, which occurred at 4:24 am, is at a depth of 10 kilometers, about 193 kilometers northwest of the city of Abepura, in Papua.
The Pacific Tsunamis Alert Center assured that there was no threat of tsunami.
The USGS had initially announced a magnitude of 6.5 before revising this figure down.
The vast Indonesian archipelago knows frequent earthquakes because of its position on the “fire belt” of the Pacific. an arc of intense seismic activity where the tectonic plates collided and which extends from Japan through Southeast Asia and the Pacific Basin.
A magnitude 6.2 earthquake that rocked Sulawesi in January 2021 earthquake magnitude 6.3 strikes papua, left more than 100 dead and left thousands of homeless people. In 2018, a magnitude 7.5 shock followed by a tsunami in Palu, on the island of Sulawesi, left more than 2,200 dead.
In 2004, an earthquake of magnitude 9.1 struck the province of Aceh, causing a tsunami and killing more than 170,000 people in Indonesia.
earthquake magnitude 6.3 strikes papua, — Earthquake magnitude 6.3 strikes papua,: An earthquake of magnitude 6.3 struck Papua Tuesday. a province located in eastern Indonesia, announced the American Institute of Geophysics (USGS), the risk of a tsunami having been dismissed. The epicenter of the earthquake, which oc.
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