The North Sulawesi province of Indonesia experienced a 6.0-magnitude earthquake on Saturday, although there were no reports of casualties or damage to property. According to the country’s meteorological, climatology, and geophysics agency, the earthquake’s tremor did not trigger a tsunami, according to the Xinhua news agency.
According to the CSA, the earthquake occurred at 15:55 local time and had an epicentre 11 km beneath the surface of the ocean, 37 km southeast of Talaud Island’s Melonguane sub-district. According to Joi Oroh, director of the North Sulawesi Province’s disaster management and mitigation agency, neither damage nor casualties were reported as a result of the earthquake.
According to Jabes Linda, head of the operational unit of the disaster management and mitigation agency in the district, although the tremor was felt strongly in Talaud Island, the area that was most severely affected, it did not cause panic among the locals.
“We have checked the risks in each sub-district, so far there were no reports of damage or casualties from the quake,” he told Xinhua. Indonesia sits on a vulnerable quake-hit zone called “the Pacific Ring of Fire”
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