An earthquake with a magnitude of 6.2 shook the offshore island of Sulawesi on Wednesday,5 November. The country’s geophysics agency said, adding that there was no Tsunami potential
This marks the second major earthquake to strike the country recently. Just last week, a magnitude 6.6 quake hit the Banda Sea near Indonesia’s Maluku Islands, occurring at a depth of about 137 kilometers. At the time, Indonesia’s Meteorology, Climatology, and Geophysics Agency also confirmed that there was no tsunami threat, Reuters reported.
Indonesia is located in the seismically active Pacific “Ring of Fire,” and hence the country is prone to earthquakes. The country lies at the confluence of several major tectonic plates, making it one of the most seismically active regions in the world.
Earthquake-Prone Area
In January 2021, an earthquake of magnitude 6.2 struck the Sulawesi region, killing more than 100 people and leaving thousands homeless. Another major quake occurred in 2018, when a magnitude 7.5 quake and subsequent tsunami in Palu on Sulawesi, killed more than 2,200 people.
In 2004, a magnitude 9.1 quake hit Aceh Province, triggering a devastating tsunami that killed more than 170,000 people in Indonesia, AFP reported earlier.
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