A strong 6.6-magnitude eartquake hit waters off eastern Indonesia on 21 April 2012. The tremor was centered only 30 kilometers below the ocean floor.
Indonesia, given its location on the Pacific “Ring of Fire”, is highly prone to earthquakes. The country over the past few months has witnessed a string of seismic turmoil.
More than 2 lakh people were killed in a massive earth quake that hit the country on 26 December, 2004. The deadly quake had triggered a tsunami in the Indian Ocean which subsequently claimed the life of tens of thousands of people across the Indian Ocean region.
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