Earthquake slightly damages houses in southeastern Indonesia, but no casualties reported

JAKARTA, Indonesia — An earthquake slightly broken houses and different constructions in southeastern Indonesia early Thursday, inflicting some panic but no obvious casualties.

The quake used to be strongly felt in a number of towns and villages and brought about some to panic, stated Daryono, who heads the Earthquake and Tsunami Center at Indonesia’s Meteorology, Climatology and Geophysical Agency. It used to be in accordance with land and had no possibility of a tsunami.

“The quake has caused light damages in several buildings and houses,” wrote Daryono, who is going via a unmarried identify, at the social media platform X.

Video circulating on social media confirmed citizens in Kupang, the province’s capital and biggest town, reacting as houses and constructions swayed simply after crack of dawn. Some witnesses stated ceilings on the governor’s and mayor’s places of work have been broken.

The U.S. Geological Survey measured the power at 6.1 magnitude and stated the quake took place 36 kilometers (22 miles) underneath the outside. The epicenter used to be 21 kilometers (13 miles) north-northeast of Kupang at the western facet of Timor Island.

The Indonesian company measured its power at 6.3 magnitude. Variations in early measurements of quakes are commonplace.

Indonesia is a seismically energetic archipelago of 270 million other people the place earthquakes, volcanic eruptions and tsunamis regularly happen.

A magnitude 5.6 earthquake closing yr killed no less than 602 other people in West Java’s Cianjur town. It used to be the deadliest in Indonesia since a 2018 quake and tsunami in Sulawesi killed greater than 4,300 other people.

In 2004, a particularly tough Indian Ocean quake activate a tsunami that killed greater than 230,000 other people in a dozen nations, maximum of them in Indonesia’s Aceh province.