Jakarta (ANTARA News) - An earthquake measuring 5.3 on the Richter scale jolted the northeastern part of Tambrauw regency, West Papua province, at 1.28 pm local time on Friday.

According to data from the Meteorology Climatology and Geophysics Agency, the quake was centred at 0.14 degree southern latitude and 132.93 degree western longitude, 48 kilometres northeast of Tambrauw, 128 km northeast of Sorong, West Papua, 133 km northeast of Manokwari, West Papua, and 2,979 km northeast of Jakarta, at a depth of 10 km below sea level.

The earthquake was not strong enough to trigger a tsunami.

(A059/INE/a014)



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