Strong earthquake rattles Indonesia
A strong earthquake rattled central Indonesia today, a meteorological agency said. There were no immediate reports of damage or casualties.
The 6.1-magnitude quake was centred on Sangihe, an island 220 miles north-east of North Sulawesi’s provincial capital Manado, the US Geological Survey said on its website.
It struck at 11.03am local time (4.03am Irish time) and was the most powerful of six quakes to hit the same region in the past two days.
Local officials said they had no immediate reports of damage or casualties on the remote, sparsely populated island.
Indonesia, the world’s largest archipelago, is prone to seismic upheaval due to its location on the so-called Pacific “Ring of Fire”, a string of volcanos and fault lines encircling the Pacific basin.
