In the north of the Indonesian earthquake of magnitude 5.6 occurred

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BALI (Indonesia), December 4 ─ RIA Novosti. An earthquake measuring 5.6 on the Richter scale occurred on Sunday in the northern part of Indonesia, a tsunami threat there, told RIA Novosti in the National administration of meteorology, climatology and geophysics.

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According to management, the epicenter of the jolt was located 110 kilometers east of the Talaud archipelago located in the Pacific Ocean at the junction of the borders of Indonesia and the Philippines. Its center lies at a depth of 124 kilometers under the surface of the Pacific Ocean. No casualties or damage have been reported yet.

Indonesia is one of the most seismically active zone of the planet and is part of the so-called Pacific ring of fire (powerful tectonic fault). In 2009, more than a thousand people were killed in a series of powerful tremors in the province of West Sumatra, in 2004 at the west coast of Sumatra was the strongest earthquake that caused a tsunami that killed hundreds of thousands of people in 12 countries.

In 2014, in the Celebes Sea, there were two earthquakes of magnitude 7.3 on the Richter scale, caused a local tsunami that did not result in casualties, but has caused minor damage.