A powerful earthquake has shaken elements of Indonesia, but a tsunami was not anticipated and no harm was at first noted.Indonesia's Meteorology and Geophysics Company said the Monday evening quake was centered about 110 miles (178 kilometers) southeast of Tahuna island and six miles (10 kilometers) beneath the Maluku Sea.
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The agency said it absolutely was magnitude six.9, while the U.S. Geological Survey set the magnitude at six.2.
It strongly shook the North Sulawesi provincial town of Manado, said Arif, an agency official who employs just one name. Witnesses explained many residents woke up and ran out in panic.
Indonesia has frequent earthquakes on account of its location about the Pacific "Ring of Fire," an arc of volcanos and fault lines encircling the Pacific Basin.
