A 6.0-magnitude earthquake struck off North Sulawesi province in central Indonesia on Friday evening but did not trigger a tsunami, the country’s meteorology, climatology and geophysics agency said.
The quake happened at 18:48 p.m. Jakarta time (1148 GMT), with its epicenter being 117 km southeast of Bolaang Mongondow Timur (East Bolaang Mongondow) district and a depth of 10 km under the seabed, the agency reported.
The earthquake did not have the potential to trigger giant waves, it said.