Moderate quake strikes eastern Indonesia

JAKARTA, June 25 (Reuters) An undersea earthquake measuring 6.0 on the Richter scale rocked eastern Indonesia today, but there were no reports of damage and there was no risk of a tsunami, a Meteorology and Geophysics Agency official said.

The epicentre of the quake lay 45 km (28 miles) northwest of Labuhanbajo in East Nusa Tanggara province on Sumba island at a depth of 181 km, an analyst at the agency said.

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''.

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