Jakarta:
At least 3 individuals have died and 24 been injured immediately after a 6.2 magnitude earthquake struck Indonesia’s Sulawesi island, the country’s disaster mitigation agency stated on Friday.
The epicentre of the quake was six kilometres (3.73 miles)northeast of the city of Majene, at a depth of 10 kilometres.
Several thousand panicked residents fled their properties to seek security immediately after the quake, which did not trigger a tsunami warning but was felt strongly for about seven seconds, the statement stated.
The disaster mitigation agency stated a hotel and the workplace of the West Sulwesi governor had been severely broken, and electrical energy supplies had been also down.
Hours earlier, a 5.9 magnitude earthquake struck in the exact same district on Thursday damaging many homes
Straddling the so-referred to as Pacific ‘ring of fire’, Indonesia, a nation of higher tectonic activity, is on a regular basis hit by earthquakes.
In 2018, a devastating 6.2 magnitude quake and subsequent tsunami struck the city of Palu, in Sulawesi, killing thousands of individuals.
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