No report was received of material damage caused by the earthquake. The result of modeling shows that the earthquake did not have the potential to trigger a tsunami.Jakarta (ANTARA) - A 5.6-magnitude earthquake rattled Wamena City in the easternmost Indonesian province of Papua on Friday at 8:16 Western Indonesia Time (WIB), according to the Meteorology, Climatology and Geophysics Agency (BMKG).
"No report was received of material damage caused by the earthquake. The result of modeling shows that the earthquake did not have the potential to trigger a tsunami," Chief of BMKG's Earthquake and Tsunami Center, Bambang Setiyo Prayitno, noted in a written statement released on Friday.
The epicenter of the earthquake was 49 kilometers south of Wamena, the capital of Jayawijaya District, at a depth of 24 kilometers.
The BMKG had earlier recorded the magnitude of the earthquake at 5.6 and later revised it to 5.3.
The tremor was felt by people at Modified Mercalli Intensity (MMI) scale IV in Wamena
and MMI II-III in Timika.
A quake of MMI IV could be felt by several people within and outside their houses, with the windows or doors creaking and audible wall sounds, while that of MMI II-III could be felt indoors akin to the movement of a truck.
Indonesia sits on the geographically active “Pacific Ring of Fire” and holds some 40 percent of the world's geothermal reserves.
The Ring of Fire, or the Circum-Pacific belt, is the world’s biggest earthquake belt, according to Live Science, owing to fault lines running from Chile to Japan and Southeast Asia.
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