A 6.2 magnitude quake struck off eastern Indonesia on Friday, the US Geological Survey (USGS) said, with no immediate reports of casualties or damage.
The jolt struck at a depth of 120 kilometers, around 58 kilometers west of Tobelo, in North Maluku province at 11:31 local time (0231 GMT).
“I was sitting and having coffee at a roadside coffee stall when suddenly my chair started rocking. I panicked for a moment because I’m still traumatized by the past earthquakes,” Umar Abbas, a resident of Ternate, around 114 kilometers away from the epicenter, told AFP.
Indonesia’s Meteorology, Climatology and Geophysics Agency (BMKG) said there was no threat of a tsunami.
Indonesia and neighboring countries experience frequent earthquakes due to their location in the Pacific “Ring of Fire” – an arc of intense seismic activity stretching from Japan through Southeast Asia and across the Pacific basin.
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