7.0-magnitude earthquake hits eastern Indonesia


AN offshore earthquake with a magnitude of 7.0 hit near eastern Indonesia’s Maluku islands today, the US Geological Survey (USGS) reported, triggering a tsunami warning.

The epicentre of the tremor was 150km northwest of the eastern Indonesian island of Halmahera, at a depth of 48km.


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