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Another Powerful Quake Strikes Off Indonesia Coast - EMSC

MOSCOW (Sputnik) - An earthquake measuring the highest magnitude of 6.7 on the Richter scale hit on Friday off the Indonesian coast in the Flores Sea, the European-Mediterranean Seismological Centre (EMSC) said.
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"M6.2 earthquake strikes 123 km [76 miles] NW of Labuhanbajo (Indonesia) 17 min ago. Read eyewitnesses' stories [and] share yours," the EMSC tweeted.

The epicentre of the quake was registered 135 km north of the Komodo Island and 255 km south of Makassar Island at a depth of about 546 km, according to the EMSC.

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There has not been informed on victims or tsunami risk yet, the EMSC said. This is the latest of the earthquakes that had hit Indonesia. The Lombock Island earthquake with a maximum 6,9 magnitude took lives of nearly 500 people this August.

 

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