Moderate earthquake rattles Indonesia
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Press Trust of India Jan 20, 2007 03:43 PM IST
The 5.9-magnitude quake was centered 80 miles-deep under the Banda sea, but there were no reports of any damage or tsunami.
A moderate earthquake rocked parts of eastern Indonesia on Saturday but there were no reports of any damage or a tsunami triggered, local meteorological agency said.
The 5.9-magnitude quake was centered 80 miles-deep under the Banda sea 200 miles southeast of Ambon, the provincial capital of Mollucan islands, the US Geological Survey said on its website.
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Indonesia, the world's largest archipelago, is prone to seismic upheaval due to its location on the so-called Pacific "Ring of Fire," an arc of volcanoes and fault lines encircling the Pacific Basin.
A massive earthquake and subsequent tsunami on Dec 26, 2004, killed more than 131,000 people in Indonesia's Aceh province alone and left half a million homeless.
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