JAKARTA: A magnitude 6.5 earthquake that hit Indonesia’s eastern province of Maluku has killed at least 20 people.
Disaster officials said the early morning quake, initially measured at a magnitude of 6.8, woke residents of towns such as provincial capital Ambon, about 40 km (25 miles) from the epicenter, but the geophysics agency ruled out a tsunami.
A spokesman for Indonesia’s disaster mitigation agency (BNPB), Agus Wibowo, told reporters in Jakarta that 20 people had died after the quake.
(Agencies)
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