4 killed, buildings damaged as earthquake hits eastern Indonesia
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A magnitude-5.4 earthquake jolted eastern Papua province on Thursday.
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JAKARTA – Four people were killed and several houses and buildings destroyed after a magnitude-5.4 earthquake jolted eastern Papua province on Thursday, a disaster agency official said.
“The jolts of the quake were felt strongly here. They damaged houses, a restaurant and buildings,” said Mr Jonathan Koirewoa, manager of the operation control centre for the provincial disaster management and mitigation agency. He was speaking to Xinhua via phone.
“Four people were killed during the earthquake. Now we are carrying out risk assessments of the quake,” he said.
The country’s meteorology, climatology and geophysics agency reported that the earthquake struck at 2:28pm local time, with its epicentre located 1km south-west of the provincial capital of Jayapura and at a depth of 10km.
The earthquake did not have the potential to trigger a tsunami, it said. Several aftershocks occurred after the main shock, the agency added. XINHUA
