A strong, shallow earthquake struck eastern Indonesia on Sunday, damaging some homes and causing panicked residents to flee to temporary shelters. There were no immediate reports of casualties, and authorities said there was no threat of a tsunami.
The U.S. Geological Survey said the magnitude 7.3 quake was centered 166 kilometers southeast of Ternate, the capital of North Maluku province, at a depth of just 10 kilometers . Shallow quakes tend to cause more damage than deeper ones.
Still, many people ran to higher ground, and TV footage showed people screaming while running out of a shopping mall in Ternate. Ikhsan Subur, a local disaster agency official in Labuha, the town closest to the quake's epicenter, said several hundred people who were afraid of aftershocks fled to take shelter in government offices and mosques.
The disaster agency released photos of some moderately cracked ground and a damaged house of a village police chief in South Halmahera.With a population of around 1 million, North Maluku is one of Indonesia's least populous provinces.
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