A magnitude 6.2 earthquake struck off eastern Indonesia on Friday, the US Geological Survey (USGS) said, with no immediate reports of casualties or damage, reports AFP.
The quake struck at a depth of 120 kilometres, about 58 kilometres west of Tobelo in North Maluku province at 11:31 a.m. local time (0231 GMT).
"I was sitting and having coffee at a roadside coffee stall when suddenly my chair started rocking. I panicked for a moment because I'm still traumatised by the past earthquakes," Umar Abbas, a resident of Ternate, about 114 kilometres from the epicentre, told AFP.
Indonesia's Meteorology, Climatology and Geophysics Agency (BMKG) said the earthquake did not pose a tsunami threat.
Indonesia experiences frequent earthquakes because it lies along the Pacific "Ring of Fire," a zone of intense seismic and volcanic activity stretching from Japan through Southeast Asia and across the Pacific Ocean.
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