A 7.1-magnitude earthquake struck Indonesia’s Banda Sea on Wednesday, the United States Geological Survey mentioned, with no quick reviews of injury or casualties.

No tsunami warning was issued for the quake — initially reported as a magnitude 6.9 — which hit at 11:53 am native time (0453 GMT), in response to the USGS.

The tremor was felt reasonably within the city of Saumlaki within the archipelago’s Tanimbar Islands, in response to the Indonesian Meteorological, Climatological and Geophysical Agency, or BMKG.

“The earthquake was quite intense. But the people here were not panicking. We are used to having earthquakes,” Saumlaki resident Lambert Tatang advised AFP.

“Especially after we learned that there was no tsunami threat, so life is just normal now,” the 41-year-old mentioned.

Indonesia experiences frequent earthquakes as a result of its place on the Pacific “Ring of Fire”, an arc of intense seismic exercise that stretches from Japan via Southeast Asia and throughout the Pacific basin.

In November final yr, a 5.6-magnitude quake hit the populous West Java province on the nation’s foremost island of Java, killing 602 individuals.

In 2004, a 9.1-magnitude quake struck the coast of Sumatra and triggered a tsunami that killed 220,000 all through the area, together with about 170,000 in Indonesia.

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