JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) - A 6.1 magnitude earthquake struck in eastern Indonesian on Tuesday, but there was no threat of a tsunami, officials said. The quake was centered beneath the Banda Sea about 120 miles southwest of Ambon, the capital of Maluku province, the U.S. Geological Survey said on its Web site.
The tremor was not felt by residents in the region and there were no reports of damage or casualties, said Aprilianto, an official at a Jakarta-based Meteorological and Geophysics Agency. The quake did not have the potential to cause a destructive tsunami, he said.
Indonesia, the world's largest archipelago, is prone to seismic upheaval due to its location on the so-called Pacific "Ring of Fire," a string of volcanos and fault lines encircling the Pacific Basin.
