Indonesia says magnitude 7 quake off Sulawesi, residents flee buildings

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A powerful earthquake with a 7.0 magnitude struck off Indonesia’s North Sulawesi province, the country’s geophysics agency said, adding that there was no tsunami potential. | Reuters

A resident in the city of Manado, the capital of North Sulawesi, said by telephone that the quake was felt very strongly for several seconds and people were seen running out of buildings.

According to the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology , the quake was also felt in the Philippines.Intensity II – Don Marcelino, Davao Occidental; Nabunturan, Davao de Oro; Glan and Kiamba, Sarangani; General Santos City, Tupi, Santo Niño, Koronadal City, and T’Boli, South Cotabato Meanwhile, Phivolcs in a separate advisory said that there is no threat of a tsunami, despite the strength of the earthquake.

 

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