A magnitude 6.1 earthquake struck the Indonesian province of Papua on Saturday morning (September 10th), followed by another magnitude 5.8 quake a few minutes later, the US Geological Survey said ( USGS).
Both earthquakes were recorded at a depth of 15 kilometers, about 272 kilometers from the city of Abepura, the USGS said. A third magnitude 5.9 earthquake also struck the same area at a depth of 32 km.
No casualties or material damage were immediately reported by the authorities, and no tsunami warning was issued.
Indonesia is located on the Pacific “Ring of Fire”, which means that it suffers from frequent earthquakes.
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In January 2021, a magnitude 6.2 earthquake struck the island of Sulawesi, killing more than 100 people and making thousands homeless, turning buildings into a heap of warped metal and chunks of concrete in the coastal town of Mamuju.
In 2018, a 7.5 magnitude earthquake and tsunami in Palu on the island of Sulawesi killed more than 2,200 people. A thousand others were missing.
And in December 2004, a magnitude 9.1 earthquake, followed by a tsunami, struck the Indonesian province of Aceh causing the death of more than 170,000 people.