Jakarta: A powerful earthquake measuring 6.1 magnitude on the Richter Scale struck Indonesia’s Sulawesi Island . There is no report of damage or casualties.
Earthquakes, volcanic eruptions and tsunamis frequently strike Indonesia, a vast archipelago nation of more than 270 million people because of its location on the ‘Ring of Fire’. The Ring of Fire, or the Circum-Pacific Belt, is a path along the Pacific Ocean characterized by active volcanoes and frequent earthquakes. It is a horseshoe-shaped belt about 40,000km long and about 500 km wide that contains two-thirds of the world’s total volcanoes and 90% of Earth’s earthquakes.
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According to the US Geological Survey (USGS), the earthquake hit at a depth of 10 kilometres (6.2 miles) with the epicentre offshore near North Sulawesi province. The country’s meteorological agency gave a lower magnitude of 6.0 and said there was no potential for a tsunami.
A magnitude-6.2 quake that shook Sulawesi in January 2021 killed more than 100 people and left thousands homeless. In 2018, a magnitude-7.5 quake and subsequent tsunami in Palu on Sulawesi killed more than 2,200 people. And in 2004, a magnitude-9.1 quake struck Aceh province, causing a tsunami and killing more than 170,000 people in Indonesia.
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