A strong undersea earthquake has hit off eastern Indonesia, but no injuries or serious damage was reported immediately.
The Indonesian Meteorology and Geophysics Agency said the temblor on Friday had a magnitude of 6.6 and was unlikely to trigger a tsunami.
The U.S. Geological Survey said the earthquake measured 6.5 and struck about 94 km west of Waingapu, a coastal town on Sumba island in East Nusatenggara province. It said it was centred at a depth of about 30 km.
Indonesia is prone to earthquakes due to its location on the Pacific “Ring of Fire,” an arc of volcanoes and fault lines in the Pacific Basin.
In 2004, a massive earthquake off Sumatra triggered a tsunami that killed 230,000 people in a dozen countries.
