Map detailing the location of magnitude-7.0 earthquake.
DEVELOPING — A magnitude-7.0 earthquake has struck the Banda Sea, off the coast of Indonesia.
Indonesia issued a tsunami alert, but the U.S. Geological Survey reports the quake was located too deep within the earth to generate one in the Indian ocean.
The quake reportedly took place in waters far from most of Indonesia's most populated areas. Jakarta residents tell Fox News they did not feel earthquake rumblings.
The quake struck 92-miles deep in the Banda Sea, 138 miles northwest of Saumlaki in Indonesia's Tanimbar Islands at 11:40 p.m. local time.
Saturday's quake came as Indonesia is still recovering from another earthquake last month island that killed more than 1,000 people on western Sumatra.
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