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2 earthquakes rock east Indonesia, no casualties
Jakarta,
Mar
18:
Two
earthquakes
hit
eastern
Indonesian
regions
today,
but
there
were
no
reports
of
casualties
or
damage,
a
meteorological
official
said.
A
moderate
earthquake
measuring
5.4
on
the
Richter
scale
struck
Papua
province
at
0754
hrs
said
an
official
at
the
National
Metereology
and
Geophysics
Agency.
It
was
centred
147
km
northwest
of
the
provincial
capital,
Jayapura,
at
a
depth
of
78
km,
the
official
said.
Earlier,
a
5.9
magnitude
quake
jolted
Ternate
on
the
Moluccas
islands,
at
2312
hrs.
The
undersea
quake
had
a
depth
of
57
km
and
was
centred
some
126
km
northwest
of
Ternate.
Earthquakes
are
frequent
in
Indonesia,
the
world's
fourth
most
populous
country.
Its
17,000
islands
sprawl
along
a
belt
of
intense
volcanic
and
seismic
activity,
part
of
what
is
called
the
''Pacific
Ring
of
Fire''.
Reuters
