Moderate quake jolts eastern Indonesia, no tsunami alert issued-Xinhua

Moderate quake jolts eastern Indonesia, no tsunami alert issued

Source: Xinhua| 2022-04-17 14:16:17|Editor: huaxia

JAKARTA, April 17 (Xinhua) -- A 5.8-magnitude earthquake rocked Indonesia's eastern province of Papua on Sunday, and no tsunami alert was issued, the meteorology, climatology and geophysics agency said.

The quake struck at 12:49 Jakarta time (0549 GMT), with the epicenter at 111 km northwest of Kepulauan Yapen (Yapen islands) district and the shallow of 10 km under the seabed, the agency said.

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