Jakarta- An undersea earthquake registering 6.3 on the Richter scale struck early Tuesday evening off East Timor, but there were no reports of injury or damage, Indonesian seismological officials said.
The quake struck at 6:15 pm Jakarta time (1115 GMT), about 163 kilometres south-east of Dili, the capital of East Timor, according to Indonesia's National Meteorology and Geophysics Agency.
The event was centred about 30 kilometres beneath the seabed but did not trigger a tsunami, the agency said.
Jakarta - An undersea earthquake registering 6.0 on the Richter scale struck Sunday morning off East Timor, but there were no reports of injury or damage, Indonesian seismological officials said.
The quake struck at 7 am Sunday Jakarta time (0000 GMT), about 159 kilometres south-east of Dili, the capital of East Timor, according to the National Meteorology and Geophysics Agency.
The event was centred only 10 kilometres beneath the seabed but did not trigger a tsunami, the agency said.
Jakarta - Indonesian police said Friday they were investigating two suspected bomb blasts near a mine operated by US mining giant Freeport-McMoRan Copper and Gold Inc in the country's easternmost province Papua.
Company spokesman Mindo Pangaribuan said no one was injured in the blasts, took place early riday and that operations were not affected.
"Investigation is still underway," Papua police chief Bagus Eko Danto, was quoted as saying by the state-run Antara news agency, adding that a team of investigators, including members of the country's elite anti-terror unit were rushed to the scene.
Tokyo , Jakarta - Powerful earthquakes hit northern Japan and eastern Indonesia Thursday, prompting tsunami warnings in two of the world's most seismically active countries.
A magnitude-7 quake struck off the Pacific coast of the Japanese island of Hokkaido at 9:21 am (0021 GMT) and generated waves measuring 10 to 20 centimetres that hit the eastern coast of Hokkaido about 40 minutes later, the Japan Meteorological Agency said.
The agency lifted its tsunami warning a short time later.
Jakarta - A truck packed with 42 people plunged into a ravine in the eastern Indonesian province of East Nusa Tenggara, killing 10 people and injuring dozens of others, a local media report said Thursday.
The accident took place on Wednesday when a truck, which was used to carry passengers, overturned and plunged into a ravine in East Manggarai district on Flores Island, about 1,700 kilometres east of Jakarta, the online news portal Kompas. com said.
Jakarta - A powerful earthquake struck islands in the eastern Indonesian province of North Maluku Thursday, briefly triggering a tsunami warning and causing residents to flee their homes in panic, seismologists and officials said.
The tsunami alert was cancelled about 40 minutes later after no tidal waves materialized, seismologists said. There were no immediate reports of casualties or damage.
Jakarta- An undersea earthquake registering 6.3 on the Richter scale struck early Tuesday evening off East Timor, but there were no reports of injury or damage, Indonesian seismological officials said.
Jakarta - An undersea earthquake registering 6.0 on the Richter scale struck Sunday morning off East Timor, but there were no reports of injury or damage, Indonesian seismological officials said.
Tokyo , Jakarta - Powerful earthquakes hit northern Japan and eastern Indonesia Thursday, prompting tsunami warnings in two of the world's most seismically active countries.
Jakarta - A truck packed with 42 people plunged into a ravine in the eastern Indonesian province of East Nusa Tenggara, killing 10 people and injuring dozens of others, a local media report said Thursday.
Jakarta - A powerful earthquake struck islands in the eastern Indonesian province of North Maluku Thursday, briefly triggering a tsunami warning and causing residents to flee their homes in panic, seismologists and officials said.
