A powerful but deep 7.0-magnitude earthquake has struck off the coast of the Indonesian island of Java, seismologists and residents say. There is no threat of a tsunami.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The earthquake, which struck at 4:55 p.m. local time on Friday, was centered in the Java Sea about 65 kilometers (40 miles) north of Tuban, or 130 kilometers (81 miles) northwest of Surabaya.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) said the earthquake had a preliminary magnitude of 7.0 and struck about 594 kilometers (369 miles) below the seabed, making it a very deep earthquake.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
More than 44 million people could potentially have felt the quake, the USGS said, but the great depth significantly limited the impact and no regions were exposed to strong shaking.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“Because the source of the earthquake is very deep, the shaking was felt across a large area, throughout Java, Bali to Nusa Tenggara,” said Daryano, the head of Indonesia’s earthquake and tsunami center.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
There is no threat of a tsunami.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Indonesia is on the so-called \u2018Pacific Ring of Fire\u2019, an arc of fault lines circling the Pacific Basin that is prone to frequent and large earthquakes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
A 9.1-magnitude earthquake, one of the most powerful earthquakes ever recorded, struck off Sumatra\u2019s west coast in December 2004, causing a massive tsunami which hit countries across the Pacific, killing at least 227,898 people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
More recently, a powerful 7.6-magnitude earthquake struck the Banda Sea near Indonesia and East Timor, damaging hundreds of homes and injuring several people. There were no reports of fatalities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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