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10 Aug 2023, 14:55 GMT+10
Jakarta [Indonesia], August 10 (ANI): An earthquake of magnitude 5.2 on the Richter Scale jolted Indonesia on Thursday, the United States Geological Survey (USGS) reported.
It took place around 142 km W of Tual in Indonesia at 07:30:29 (UTC05:30).
According to the USGS, the depth of the earthquake was registered at 90.5 km and its epicentre was found to be at Latitude: 5.777S and Longitude: 131.478E respectively.
No reports of casualties or material damage are known yet.
Notably, Tual is a city in Indonesia's Maluku Province that is geographically situated within the Kei Islands.
Earthquakes, volcanic eruptions and tsunamis frequently strike Indonesia, a country of more than 270 million people because of its location on the "Ring of Fire."The Ring of Fire, or the Circum-Pacific Belt, is a path along the Pacific Ocean characterized by active volcanoes and frequent earthquakes.
It is a horseshoe-shaped belt about 40,000km long and about 500 km wide that contains two-thirds of the world's total volcanoes and 90 per cent of Earth's earthquakes. (ANI)
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