An earthquake of magnitude 5.5 on the Richter scale was registered this Tuesday off southern Indonesia and eastern Timor-Leste, without the authorities having evidence of victims or material damage.
The epicenter was located 54 kilometers (km) from the Timorese city of Pante Macassar, where some 12,000 people live.
The quake occurred at a depth of 88.6 km below the seabed, said the US Geological Survey, which measures seismic activity around the world.
The Indonesian Geological Survey assessed the quake’s magnitude at 6 and said there was no risk of a tsunami.
The island of Timor-Leste is located in the so-called Pacific Ring of Fire, an area of great seismic and volcanic activity, where thousands of earthquakes are recorded each year, most of low to moderate magnitude.
Source: TSF
