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Indonesia’s Papua shaken by 6.1 magnitude earthquake, residents flee to higher ground

September 19, 2025 12:13 pm

A 6.1 earthquake struck Indonesia’s Papua region Friday, toppling homes and Nabire’s main bridge.

Magnitude 6.8 earthquake strikes Indonesia's Tanimbar Islands region, GFZ says

July 14, 2025 1:21 pm

The German Research Centre for Geosciences (GFZ) reported that an earthquake of magnitude 6.8 struck the Tanimbar Islands region in Indonesia on Monday.

Magnitude 6.5 quake strikes in Northern Molucca Sea off Indonesia

April 09, 2024 5:10 pm

There was no tsunami potential, Indonesia's geophysics agency BMKG said in a statement.

Magnitude 6.4 quake hits Indonesia's West Java

December 03, 2022 4:47 pm

Last month a shallow quake of 5.6 magnitude hit West Java's Cianjur, killing more than 300.

Many school children among 252 dead in Indonesia quake

November 22, 2022 4:40 pm

The shallow 5.6-magnitude quake struck in mountains in Indonesia's most populous province of West Java, causing significant damage to the town of Cianjur and burying at least one village under a landslide.

Strong quake shakes Indonesia's capital; no tsunami alert

January 14, 2022 8:28 pm

The U.S. Geological Survey said the magnitude 6.6 quake was located in the Indian Ocean about 88 kilometers (54 miles) southwest of Labuan, a coastal town in Banten province.

Powerful earthquake shakes Indonesia; no injuries

May 06, 2020 10:13 pm

The quake measured a preliminary magnitude 6.8 and was centered below the sea at a depth of 107 kilometers (67 miles), the U.S. Geological Survey said.

Quake hits sea off Indonesia, but tsunami warning lifted

August 02, 2019 10:26 pm

The US Geological Survey put the epicentre in the Indian Ocean about 227 km (141 miles) from Teluk Betung city on Sumatra with an initial magnitude of 7 that was later lowered to 6.8.

No tsunami threat to India due to Indonesia quake: MoES official

August 02, 2019 9:25 pm

According to the National Centre for Seismology (NCS), a 6.9 intensity quake hit southwest of Sumatra, Indonesia, at 5.30 pm (IST).

Quake with 7.3 magnitude strikes in eastern Indonesia; no reports of major damage

July 14, 2019 6:25 pm

There were no immediate reports of damages or casualties in the quake.

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Tsunami hits without warning in Indonesia, death toll crosses 400

December 26, 2018 8:41 am

Indonesia, a vast archipelago of more than 17,000 islands and home to 260 million people, lies along the "Ring of Fire," an arc of volcanoes and fault lines in the Pacific Basin.

More than 90 killed after powerful earthquake strikes Indonesia's Lombok island

August 06, 2018 10:13 am

At least 82 people were killed when Indonesia’s resort island of Lombok was hit by a powerful magnitude 7.0 earthquake on Sunday, triggering widespread panic as thousands fled their homes for emergency shelters as buildings collapsed.

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