Jakarta, Indonesia:
A 6.1-magnitude earthquake struck off the coast of Indonesia’s Sulawesi island Saturday, the United States Geological Survey mentioned, but no tsunami warning was issued and there had been no instant reports of harm.
The sturdy quake hit 258 kilometres (160 miles) northeast of the city of Manado in North Sulawesi at a depth of 68 kilometres.
Indonesia experiences frequent quakes due to its position on the Pacific “Ring of Fire”, an arc of intense seismic activity exactly where tectonic plates collide that stretches from Japan via Southeast Asia and across the Pacific basin.
In January, more than one hundred men and women had been killed and thousands left homeless by a 6.2-magnitude quake that struck Sulawesi, lowering buildings to a tangled mass of twisted metal and chunks of concrete in the seaside city of Mamuju.
A strong quake shook the island of Lombok in 2018 and numerous more tremors followed more than the next couple of weeks, killing more than 550 men and women on the vacation island and neighbouring Sumbawa.
Later that year, a 7.5-magnitude quake and a subsequent tsunami in Palu on Sulawesi island left more than 4,300 men and women dead or missing.
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