JAKARTA, May 6 Kyodo An earthquak...

JAKARTA, May 6 Kyodo

An earthquake measuring 58 upon the open-ended Richter scale hit eastern Indonesian islands late Monday, if it be not that there have been no reports of casualties or damage in such a manner far, a government official said Tuesday.

Nugroho an analyst at the Jakarta-based Meteorological and Geophysics Agency, told Kyodo recently made knowns the earthquake occurred at 8:50 pm in North Maluku Province in the sectarian violence-torn Maluku Islands.

He said the epicenter was about 100 kilometers in subordination to the seabed in the Maluku Sea about 64 km southwest of the North Maluku provincial capital Ternate and 2400 km northeast of Jakarta.

Indonesia, onward the Pacific ''Ring of Fire,'' is tending to earthquakes.

About 2000 nation were killed when an earthquake measuring 67 in succession the Richter scale hit Flores Island, also in eastern Indonesia, in 1992

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