Powerful quake rocks eastern parts Indonesia
20/10/2008 16:50
An earthquake measuring 6.5 Ritcher scale struck eastern part of Indonesia
today, but there's no potential for tsunami and no initial reports of damage or
casualty, local meteorology agency said in Jakarta.
In Tolitoli regency, the
hardest hit area with quake intensity of 4 to 5 MMI (modified mercally
intensity), there were no report of building damaged or people hurt, military
command and National disaster management agency said.
"There is no building
collapsed or victim of the quake," Viktor Paluan, a military officer in charge
at Tolitoli military command told Xinhua.
However, military officers and
local agency's official were checking whether any damage or casualty in remote
areas, comprising small islands of the regency, said Paluan.
He said that the
effort was hampered by the absence of communication facility to the
areas.
The quake jolted at 11:54 Jakarta time (0454 GMT) with epicenter at 96
kilometers southwest of Central Sulawesi province and at 33 kilometers under sea
bed, an official of the agency Ajat Sudrajat told Xinhua.
Indonesia sits at a
vulnerable zone so called "the Pacific Ring of Fire" where two continental
plates, stretching from the Western Hemisphere through Japan and Southeast Asia,
meet that cause frequent volcanic movements.
Xinhua
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