REPUBLIKA.CO.ID, JAKARTA -- An earthquake measuring 4.2 on the Richter Scale jolted Amon, Maluku Province, on Wednesday at 1:56 a.m. Western Indonesian Standard Time (WIB).
The quake's epicenter was located at 3.78 degrees southern latitude and 127.78 degrees eastern longitude, some 43 kilometers (km) west of Ambon, and at a depth of 10 km.
The city was earlier hit by an earthquake of the same magnitude on Tuesday at 9:55 p.m. WIB, the National Meteorology, Climatology, and Geophysics Agency reported on its official website, here, Wednesday.
A series of earthquakes jolted Ambon City and Ambon Island on Tuesday evening, among others, at a magnitude of 5.7 on the Richter Scale at 8:31 p.m. local time, 5.6 on the Richter Scale at 8:34 p.m. local time, and at 6.2 on the Richter Scale at 8:50 p.m. local time.
The tremors did not trigger a tsunami, and there were no immediate reports of casualties or damage due to the natural disaster.
Indonesia lies between the Ring of Fire along the northeastern islands adjacent to and including New Guinea and the Alpide belt along the south and west from Sumatra, Java, Bali, Flores, and Timor.
The Ring of Fire is a major area in the basin of the Pacific Ocean where a large number of earthquakes and volcanic eruptions occur.
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