A powerful earthquake shook jap Indonesia on Wednesday, with no harm instantly reported and no tsunami warning issued.

Some residents tried to flee from homes after the magnitude 7.2 earthquake.

The U.S. Geological Survey mentioned it occurred 60 kilometers (37.2 miles) deep beneath the ocean, centered 150 kilometers (93.2 miles) northwest of Tobelo in North Maluku province.

No tsunami warning was issued by Indonesia’s Meteorology, Climatology and Geophysics Agency. The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center in Honolulu briefly mentioned there was a possible menace to close by Indonesian coasts however lifted the discover quickly afterward.

Pius Ohoiwutun, a resident of Tobelo mentioned that some individuals was working from homes when the quake shook.

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“I felt a little swaying as the lamps also said. Some people tried to escape from their houses,” Ohoiwutun mentioned on Wednesday.

A magnitude 6.1 quake additionally shook jap Indonesia earlier Wednesday morning. No harm was reported.

Indonesia, an unlimited archipelago and a house of greater than 270 million individuals, is regularly hit by earthquakes and volcanic eruptions due to its location on the “Ring of Fire,” an arc of seismic faults across the Pacific Basin.

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A magnitude 5.6 earthquake on Nov. 21 killed at the very least 331 individuals in West Java. It was the deadliest in Indonesia since a 2018 quake and tsunami in Sulawesi killed about 4,340 individuals.

In 2004, an especially highly effective Indian Ocean quake set off a tsunami that killed greater than 230,000 individuals in a dozen international locations, most of them in Indonesia’s Aceh province.