Magnitude 6.1 quake strikes Indonesia
Pastor Dale Morgan
Magnitude 6.1 quake strikes Indonesia *
The Associated Press
Monday, August 14, 2006 11:53 p.m. ET
JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) -- A 6.1 magnitude earthquake struck in eastern
Indonesian on Tuesday, but there was no threat of a tsunami, officials said.
The quake was centered beneath the Banda Sea about 120 miles southwest
of Ambon, the capital of Maluku province, the U.S. Geological Survey
said on its Web site.
The tremor was not felt by residents in the region and there were no
reports of damage or casualties, said Aprilianto, an official at a
Jakarta-based Meteorological and Geophysics Agency. The quake did not
have the potential to cause a destructive tsunami, he said.
Indonesia, the world's largest archipelago, is prone to seismic upheaval
due to its location on the so-called Pacific "Ring of Fire," a string of
volcanos and fault lines encircling the Pacific Basin.