Jakarta: A 5.8-magnitude earthquake struck eastern Indonesia on Wednesday and residents living along the coast in Maluku province have been asked to move to higher areas.
Indonesia’s Meteorological, Climatology and Geophysics Agency said people living on the Japutih and Apiahu beaches in central Maluku district should evacuate immediately and be alerted to a tsunami caused by landslides in the sea and aftershocks after the quake. needed.
The US Geological Survey said the quake’s epicenter was 70 kilometers from the city of Amahai on Serum Island in Maluku province, at a depth of about 10 kilometers in the sea. Earthquakes, volcanic eruptions and tsunamis occur in Indonesia every day.
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