Three moderate earthquakes respectively hit East Nusa Tenggara, North Sumatra and North Maluku in Indonesia Saturday evening, but there was no immediate report of casualties or material damage, the Meteorology and Geophysics Agency (BMG) said Sunday.
An earthquake measuring 5.0 a the Richter scale hit Kupang of East Nusa Tenggara province on Saturday midnight, with epicenter located at 114 km northeast of the city at a depth of 33 km below the sea.
Another earthquake measuring 5.3 magnitude jolted Mentawai in North Sumatra province earlier in the day. Its epicenter was located at 376 km southwest of Mentawai at a depth of 134 km.
Then an earthquake measuring 5.3 magnitude hit North Maluku province. It struck Ternate also on Saturday, with the epicenter located at 131 km northwest of the city at a depth of 94 km.
Source: Xinhua
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