A 7.3-magnitude earthquake hits Banda Beach in eastern Indonesia

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A 7.3-magnitude earthquake hit the Banda Sea in the eastern part of Indonesia on Thursday with minor damage reported, according to the country’s Meteorology, Climatology and Geophysics Agency (BMKG).

BMKG said two houses collapsed and some other minor damage was reported in southwest Maluku, but the quake did not cause a tsunami.

The quake occurred at 1:25 a.m. local time and had its epicenter in the sea 132 kilometers east of Tiakor city in South West Maluku district, Maluku province and at a depth of 183 kilometers under the sea floor, BMKG chief quake tsunami center Bambang Sitio Prayetno said in a written statement on Thursday. .

The agency recorded three aftershocks with a magnitude of 5.2 greater.

The agency called on people to continue to update information from reliable sources, and to avoid cracks or buildings damaged by the earthquake.

(The title and image for this report may have been reformulated only by the Business Standard staff; the rest of the content is automatically generated from a shared feed.)

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