5.1 M Earthquake Jolts Indonesia's Sumba Island

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12 July 2023 22:59 WIB

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TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - A tectonic earthquake with a magnitude of 5.1 rocked the southwest coast of Sumba Barat Daya Regency on Sumba Island, East Nusa Tenggara Province on Wednesday afternoon, July 12. No tsunami warning was issued.

The Meteorology, Climatology and Geophysics Agency (BMKG) recorded the earthquake at 15:39 West Indonesia Time (UTC+7), located 76 kilometers southwest of Kodi Bangedo, Southwest Sumba, at a depth of 45 kilometers.

"It is a shallow earthquake due to plate subduction activity," the BMKG's head of the Earthquake and Tsunami Center, Daryono, said in a release on Wednesday.

Daryono said that the earthquake had a thrust fault mechanism. So far there has been no report of damages. Based on the modeling results, the earthquake has no potential for a tsunami.

As of 15:50 local time, the BMKG's monitoring results have not shown any aftershock activity.

Maria Fransisca Lahur

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