An earthquake shook Indonesia’s easternmost province Monday, however there have been no fast stories of significant injury or casualties.

The US Geological Survey stated the magnitude 5.4 quake was centered 135 kilometers (83 miles) southwest of Abepura, a subdistrict in Jayapura, the capital of Papua province. It occurred at a depth of 13 kilometers (8 miles).

Indonesia’s Meteorology, Climatology and Geophysical Agency stated there was no hazard of a tsunami however warned of attainable aftershocks. It measured a preliminary magnitude of 6.4 for the quake. Variations in early measurements of quakes are frequent.

With a inhabitants of simply over 1 million, Papua is one in every of Indonesia’s least populous provinces.

In February, one other shallow earthquake shook the province, killing 4 individuals who had been unable to flee when a floating restaurant collapsed into the ocean.

Indonesia is a seismically energetic archipelago of 270 million individuals that’s often struck by earthquakes, volcanic eruptions and tsunamis.

Last November, a magnitude 5.6 earthquake killed at the least 602 individuals and injured greater than 7,700 in West Java province. In January 2021, a magnitude 6.2 earthquake killed greater than 100 individuals and injured almost 6,500 in West Sulawesi province.

A robust quake off the coast of Aceh in 2004 triggered a robust tsunami that killed round 230,000 individuals in a dozen international locations.