Jakarta (ANTARA News) - An earthquake measuring 5.9 on the Richter scale rocked Central Maluku, on Tuesday at 9.59 am Western Indonesian Standard Time (WIB).

The quake`s epicenter was located 2.66 degrees southern latitude and 129.33 degrees eastern longitude, 57 km northeast of Central Maluku, and at a depth of 10 km, the National Meteorological, Climatology and Geophysics Agency, said here Tuesday. (*)

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