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6.1 magnitude earthquake hits Indonesia’s Timor Island
Published on: Friday, September 01, 2023
By: Reuters, FMT
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6.1 magnitude earthquake hits Indonesia’s Timor Island
Indonesia straddles the so-called ‘Pacific Ring of Fire’, a seismically active zone. (AP pic)
JAKARTA: A 6.1 magnitude earthquake hit Indonesia’s Timor Island today, the country’s geophysics agency (BMKG) said on social media platform X, adding there was no potential for a tsunami.

The agency said the epicentre of the quake was on land at a depth of 75ke, and it was felt in Kupang, a city in the East Nusa Tenggara province on the western side of Timor Island.

Christa Elim, a Kupang resident, said she and her husband ran out of a shophouse after feeling tremors.

“It was quite strong. I felt it twice like I was shoved off a chair,” she said via telephone.

There were no reports of damage or casualties in some of the areas impacted by the quake, including Kupang, the local search and rescue agency said in a statement.

BMKG initially said the temblor’s magnitude was 6.2.

Indonesia straddles the so-called “Pacific Ring of Fire”, a seismically active zone, where different plates on the Earth’s crust meet, triggering a large number of earthquakes and volcanic activity.

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