An earthquake of magnitude 6.3 shook Papua on Tuesday, August 12, the province located east of Indonesia on Tuesday, August 12, the American Institute of Geophysics (USGS) announced, the risk of a tsunami being fired.
The earthquake epicenter has a depth of 10 kilometers, about 193 kilometers northwest of the city of Abepura, in Papua. The Pacific Tsunamis alert center assured that there was no threat of tsunami.
The Pacific Tsunamis alert center assured that there was no threat of tsunami. The USGS had initially announced a magnitude of 6.5 before checking this figure down.
The proximity to the “Fire Belt” of the Pacific
The vast Indonesian archipelago knows frequent earthquakes due to its position in the “Fire Belt” of the Pacific, an arc of intense seismic activity where tectonic plates collide and extends from Japan through Southeast Asia and the Pacific Basin.
An earthquake of magnitude 6.2 that shook Sulawesi in January 2021 left more than 100 dead and left thousands of homeless. In 2018, a 7.5 magnitude clash followed by a tsunami in Palu, on the island of Sulawesi, left more than 2,200 dead.
In 2004, an earthquake of magnitude 9.1 hit the province of Aceh, causing a tsunami and killing more than 170,000 people in Indonesia.
Source: BFM TV
