Magnitude Earthquake : 6 .0 Hits Off Indonesia's Talaud Islands
On Saturday, an earthquake of magnitude 6.0 struck close to Indonesia's Talaud islands at a depth of 11 km (6.8 miles), according to a tweet from the country's geophysic agency, BMKG. The assessment states that there is no chance that the earthquake will produce a tsunami. Due to its location on the "Ring of Fire," an arc of seismic faults around the Pacific Basin, which is home to more than 270 million people, Indonesia, a huge archipelago, is regularly struck by earthquakes and volcanic eruptions. At least 331 persons in West Java were killed by a magnitude 5.6 earthquake on November 21. Since a 2018 earthquake and tsunami in Sulawesi, which killed over 4,340 people, it was the worst in Indonesia. An exceptionally strong earthquake in the Indian Ocean in 2004 triggered a tsunami that killed more than 230,000 people in a dozen nations, the most of them were in Aceh province, Indonesia. In reality, Papua, Indonesia's easternmost region, had an earthquake on Thursday (Feb. 9), which resulted in the deaths of four individuals who were trapped inside a floating restaurant and unable to flee.
