Strong earthquake hits near Indonesia

WASHINGTON, Nov 14 (Reuters) A strong earthquake measuring 6.0 shook the Banda Sea near Indonesia today, the US Geological Survey said.

The quake hit (300 km) off the Moluccas, in Indonesia at 11.20 hrs, local time at the epicenter (9:20 a m EST/1950 hrs/IST. The epicenter was also (360 km) from Dili, in East Timor.

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