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A strong 6.4-magnitude earthquake struck off the Indonesian island of
Sumba on Tuesday, but no tsunami warning was issued and there were no
immediate reports of damage.
It followed a pair of offshore quakes in the same area earlier Tuesday, including one that was 6.1 magnitude.
The latest one struck about 85 kilometres (53 miles) south of the
town of Kahale, according to the United States Geological Survey.
There were no immediate reports of damage or casualties.
“This quake doesn’t have any tsunami potential,” said Indonesian disaster agency spokesman Hary Tirto Djatmiko.
Indonesia is still reeling from a deadly tsunami at the end of
December triggered by an erupting volcano in the middle of the Sunda
Strait between the Java and Sumatra islands that killed more than 400
people.
The vast Southeast Asian archipelago is extremely vulnerable to
disasters because of its position straddling the so-called Pacific Ring
of Fire, where tectonic plates collide.
The tsunami was Indonesia’s third major natural disaster in six
months, following a series of powerful earthquakes on the island of
Lombok in July and August and a quake-tsunami in September that killed
around 2,200 people in Palu on Sulawesi island, with thousands more
missing and presumed dead.
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