JAKARTA (JP): A magnitude 5.9 earthquake Thursday rattled West Java town of Sukabumi with epicenter 147 kilometers southeast of the town, says Meteorology and Geophysics Agency.
The agency did not report any damage, casualty or tsunami over the tremor occurred on 3:31 a.m. Thursday.
Indonesia, the world's largest archipelago, is prone to seismic upheaval due to its location on the so-called Pacific "Ring of Fire," an arc of volcanoes and fault lines encircling the Pacific Basin.
In December 2004, a massive earthquake off Indonesia's Sumatra island triggered a tsunami that battered much of the Indian Ocean coastline and killed more than 230,000 people - 131,000 of themin Indonesia's Aceh province alone.
A tsunami off Java island last year killed nearly 5,000.
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