5.8-magnitude earthquake strikes Pakistan<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n“The quake was felt around 15-20 seconds. The shakings were quite long,” an AFP journalist on Morotai island in the Maluku archipelago said.<\/p>\n
“Some people went outside because they were afraid of buildings collapsing.”<\/p>\n
Abner Manery, the head of the North Halmahera disaster mitigation agency, said some houses on Morotai were damaged.<\/p>\n
A resident described the moment the quake shook the island.<\/p>\n
“When it hit, we rushed outside, slightly panicked,” Rizkal Fuadsamlan, 29, told AFP.<\/p>\n
The NWS Pacific Tsunami Warning Center in Hawaii said in an updated warning the tsunami threat had passed.<\/p>\n
It said earlier tsunami waves could hit coastal areas around 300 kilometres from the epicentre.<\/p>\n
The quake was also revised down from an initial magnitude of 7.2 reported by the USGS.<\/p>\n
Indonesia’s Meteorology, Climatology and Geophysics Agency (BMKG), which put the magnitude at 7.1, warned of possible aftershocks.<\/p>\n
Daryono, the head of the agency’s earthquake and tsunami centre who like many Indonesians goes by one name, said the tremor was followed by 10 aftershocks, the largest with a magnitude of 5.3.<\/p>\n
He tweeted the quake was “triggered by (a) rock deformation in the Maluku Sea Plate”.<\/p>\n
The initial quake was felt as far away as the city of Gorontalo in northern Sulawesi, where it shook houses, and the provincial capital, Manado.<\/p>\n
A powerful quake hit deep under the ocean in eastern Indonesia earlier this month, rattling nearby islands and damaging homes and schools.<\/p>\n
The 7.6-magnitude quake caused roofs and walls to collapse in homes on the worst-hit Tanimbar Islands in the Maluku archipelago.<\/p>\n
Indonesia experiences frequent seismic and volcanic activity due to its position on the Pacific “Ring of Fire”, where tectonic plates collide.<\/p>\n
A 5.6-magnitude quake hit West Java province on Indonesia’s main island of Java on November 21, killing 602 people.<\/p>\n
Most of the victims were killed when buildings collapsed or in landslides triggered by the quake. A 2018 quake and resulting tsunami on Sulawesi island killed more than 4,000 people. A major earthquake off Sumatra on December 26, 2004, set off an Indian Ocean tsunami that killed more than 230,000 people as far away as Sri Lanka, India and Thailand.<\/p>\n
That powerful 9.1-magnitude quake triggered 100-foot waves that hit the shore of Banda Aceh on Sumatra.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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