A magnitude-6.6 earthquake hit Indonesia’s jap area on Tuesday, the United States Geological Survey stated, with no tsunami warning issued.

The quake struck off Halmahera island in North Maluku province at 0948 GMT at a depth of about 35 kilometres (22 miles), the USGS stated.

There have been no speedy stories of injury or accidents after the earthquake.

The Pacific Tsunami Warning Centre stated there was “no tsunami threat” from the quake within the Molucca Sea.

But Indonesia’s geophysics company (BMKG) suggested residents in close by areas of attainable aftershocks.

Indonesia, an enormous archipelago nation, experiences frequent earthquakes as a consequence of its place on the Pacific “Ring of Fire”, an arc of intense seismic exercise the place tectonic plates collide that stretches from Japan by Southeast Asia and throughout the Pacific basin.

A magnitude-6.2 quake that shook Sulawesi island in January 2021 killed greater than 100 folks and left hundreds homeless.

In 2018, a magnitude-7.5 quake and subsequent tsunami in Palu on Sulawesi killed greater than 2,200 folks.

And in 2004, a magnitude-9.1 quake struck Aceh province, inflicting a tsunami and killing greater than 170,000 folks in Indonesia.