Concrete rubble are seen on the floor of a classroom at Al Anshor Islamic Boarding School after an earthquake in Ambon, Maluku province, Indonesia September 26, 2019. — Video still image/Weul Artafella via Reuters
JAKARTA, Sept 26 — A 6.8-magnitude earthquake hit Seram island in Indonesia's eastern Maluku province early today causing damage to some buildings, but there was no risk of a tsunami, Indonesia's geophysics agency said.The US Geological Survey put the magnitude at 6.5. Agus Wibowo, a spokesman for Indonesia's disaster mitigation agency said in Ambon, some 40 km from the epicentre, a university building was slightly damaged and a bridge cracked.
Indonesia, which sits on the seismically active Pacific Ring of Fire, is all too familiar with deadly earthquakes and tsunamis. In 2004, a quake off Sumatra island triggered a tsunami across the Indian Ocean that killed 226,000 people in 14 countries, including more than 120,000 in Indonesia. Palu, on Sulawesi island west of Maluku, was devastated by a 7.5 magnitude earthquake and a powerful tsunami it created in September 2018. More than 4,000 people died there. — Reuters
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