JAKARTA (The Jakarta Post) : An earthquake measuring 4.8 in Richter Scale Tuesday hit Timor Island felt in several areas of Timor Tengah Utara regency, East Nusa Tenggara province.
Meteorology and Geophysics, or BMG, said that the epicenter of the tremor, occurring at 5.37 p.m. local time, was located some 145 kilometers northeast of provincial capital of Kupang.
There is no immediate report of property damage or casualty.
Indonesia sits on the seismically active Pacific Ring of Fire, and experiences frequent earthquakes - as well as tsunamis triggered by underwater earthquakes.
Last month, strong earthquake hit West Sumatra killing at least 70 people. Last year, more than 500 people died when a tsunami hit an area of the Java coast after an undersea earthquake. And in the Asian tsunami of December 2004, more than 130,000 people died on Sumatra.
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