MOSCOW, Aug 4 Indonesian province of North Sulawesi, according to the country's seismological and meteorological agency BMKG.
«An earthquake of magnitude 6.0, depth of 10 kilometers occurred on August 4 at 18.48 local time (14.48 Moscow time — ed.), the possibility of a tsunami is absent,» the agency said in a message published by the agency on the X social network, formerly known as Twitter .
There were no data on the damage and victims of the earthquake.
Indonesia often suffers from earthquakes, volcanic eruptions and tsunamis because of its location on the «Ring of Fire». This is a strip of volcanoes and tectonic faults 40 thousand kilometers long, which encircles the Pacific Ocean. It is in the «Ring of Fire» that almost 90% of the approximately one and a half thousand known volcanoes of the planet are located. 90% of all earthquakes on Earth occur there.