Manado, North Sulawesi (ANTARA) - A shallow earthquake measuring 7.0 on the Richter Scale jolted North Maluku on Sunday at 10:08 p.m. Western Indonesian Standard Time (WIB), forcing the authorities to issue a tsunami early warning, but later it was revoked at midnight.
"Viewed from the location of its epicenter and the depth of its hypocenter, the earthquake was a shallow one," Rahmat Triyono, head of the National Meteorology, Climatology and Geophysics Agency's Earthquake and Tsunami Center, said in a group chat monitored from Manado, on Monday.
Residents of Bitung and Manado cities in North Sulawesi Province, felt the tremor at IV-V MMI (modified mercalli intensity), while in Ternate at III-IV MMI.
The tremor's epicenter was located at 0.53 degree northern latitude and 126.18 degree eastern longitude, at a depth of 49 km below sea level, and 133 kilometers west of Ternate, North Maluku Province.
Reports of damages were not immediately available.
"Viewed from the location of its epicenter and the depth of its hypocenter, the earthquake was a shallow one," Rahmat Triyono, head of the National Meteorology, Climatology and Geophysics Agency's Earthquake and Tsunami Center, said in a group chat monitored from Manado, on Monday.
Residents of Bitung and Manado cities in North Sulawesi Province, felt the tremor at IV-V MMI (modified mercalli intensity), while in Ternate at III-IV MMI.
The tremor's epicenter was located at 0.53 degree northern latitude and 126.18 degree eastern longitude, at a depth of 49 km below sea level, and 133 kilometers west of Ternate, North Maluku Province.
Reports of damages were not immediately available.