A strong earthquake has hit Indonesia’s eastern province of Papua, causing panic among residents.
The earthquake struck at 8-42 a.m. local time Wednesday (11-42 p.m. GMT Tuesday). The Indonesia’s Meteorology, Climatology and Geophysics Agency says in a preliminary estimate that its magnitude was 6.2.
The agency says the quake was centred about 34 kilometres (21 miles) southwest of the town of Oksibil at a depth of 57 kilometres (35 miles).
Residents in Oksibil ran out from houses in panic, but there are no immediate reports of damage or casualties.
Indonesia is located on the Pacific “Ring of Fire,” an arc of volcanoes and fault lines encircling the Pacific Basin.
