Earthquake of 6.2 magnitude strikes in eastern Indonesia

JAKARTA: An earthquake of 6.2 magnitude (downgraded to 5.5R) struck in eastern Indonesia on Monday, the European monitoring agency said, but there were no immediate report of any casualties or damage.

The epicentre was 133 km northwest of the city of Kupang on Timor island, the European-Mediterranean Seismological Centre said.

 The map above is our location stress estimate by using our methods, not far from the epicenter.

Magnitude	Mw 5.5
Region	FLORES REGION, INDONESIA
Date time	2019-06-17 05:43:31.0 UTC
Location	8.86 S ; 123.01 E
Depth	109 km
Distances	284 km W of Dili, Timor-Leste / pop: 150,000 / local time: 14:43:31.0 2019-06-17 158 km NW of Kupang, Indonesia / pop: 283,000 / local time: 13:43:31.0 2019-06-17 92 km E of Maumere, Indonesia / pop: 47,600 / local time: 13:43:31.0 2019-06-17

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