M 5.2 Earthquake Strikes Indonesia's Morotai Island
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Ririe Ranggasari
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Laila Afifa
Rabu, 9 Maret 2022 19:05 WIB
TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - Another earthquake struck Indonesia. On Wednesday morning at 08:49 GMT+7, a 5.2 magnitude quake rocked Morotai Island Regency in the North Maluku Province.
The Meteorology, Climatology and Geophysics Agency (BMKG) reported that the epicenter was at sea, 60 kilometers northeast of Daruba, North Maluku, precisely at 2.57° north and 128.43° east, at a depth of 14 kilometers.
"There is no potential for a tsunami," the BMKG wrote on its Twitter account.
In Morotai, the tremor was felt on the MMI II-III scale. Scale III means that the tremor could be felt inside houses, similar to that of a truck passing outside. Scale-II meant that the shaking is felt by people and light objects that are hung sway.
Meanwhile, Daryono, head of the BMKG's Earthquake and Tsunami Mitigation Division, provided recent developments of the West Pasaman quake.
"From what the BMKG monitored as of March 8, 2022, there had been 225 aftershocks in West Pasaman, West Sumatra," Daryono wrote on his social media. The main earthquake in West Pasaman occurred on February 25, 2022, with a magnitude of 6.1.
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