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Sat, 04/25/2009 - 13:54
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NTB ROCKED BY 5.2 MAGNITUDE EARTHQUAKE
Bandarlampung, Indonesia, April 25 (ANTARA) - An earthquake measuring 5.2 on the Richter scale jolted Indonesia's West Nusa Tenggara (NTB) province at 5:55 local time on Saturday .
The Meteorology and Geophysics Agency (BMG) said the epicenter of the earthquake was located 200 km southwest of the province at a depth of 10 km below the sea level.
But according to BMG, there was no immediate report on casualties or material damage caused by the earthquake which had no potential to cause a tsunami.
Saturday's temblor that rocked NTB occurred in less than a week after a 5.1 magnitude earthquake shook Melonguane town in Talaud district, North Sulawesi on Monday (April 20, 2009).
That quake was strong enough to make the locals scrambled out of their homes for fear for an aftershock.
Indonesia is prone to seismic upheavals due to its location in the so-called Pacific "Ring of Fire," an arc of volcanoes and fault lines encircling the Pacific Basin.
On December 26, 2004, a massive earthquake off Indonesia's western island of Sumatra triggered a tsunami that battered much of the Indian Ocean coastline, including Aceh province, and killed more than 230,000 people.***
The Meteorology and Geophysics Agency (BMG) said the epicenter of the earthquake was located 200 km southwest of the province at a depth of 10 km below the sea level.
But according to BMG, there was no immediate report on casualties or material damage caused by the earthquake which had no potential to cause a tsunami.
Saturday's temblor that rocked NTB occurred in less than a week after a 5.1 magnitude earthquake shook Melonguane town in Talaud district, North Sulawesi on Monday (April 20, 2009).
That quake was strong enough to make the locals scrambled out of their homes for fear for an aftershock.
Indonesia is prone to seismic upheavals due to its location in the so-called Pacific "Ring of Fire," an arc of volcanoes and fault lines encircling the Pacific Basin.
On December 26, 2004, a massive earthquake off Indonesia's western island of Sumatra triggered a tsunami that battered much of the Indian Ocean coastline, including Aceh province, and killed more than 230,000 people.***
