A shallow earthquake measured 6.5 on the Richter scale rocked eastern parts of Indonesia on Sunday, but no tsunami warning was issued and no reports of damage or casualties, the country's meteorology and disaster management agencies said here. The quake struck at 12:31 Jakarta time (0541 GMT) with epicenter at 117 kms northeast Melongue of North Sulawesi and at 10 kms under sea bed, an official of meteorology agency named only Subagio told Xinhua.
"There is no report of damage or fatality. The people only felt a light shakes," an official of disaster management agency Panji Syahril Maulana told Xinhua.
Indonesia with over 230 million population sits on a vulnerable quake-hit zone so called the Pacific Ring of Fire, where two continental plates, stretching from western hemisphere to Japan, meet that cause frequent seismic and volcanic movements.
