28 January,2009 04:59 PM IST | | AFP
A 6.0-magnitude earthquake struck eastern Indonesia on Wednesday but there were no immediate reports of damage, the Meteorology and Geophysics Agency said.
The earthquake hit at 2:53 pm (0653 GMT), 101 kilometres (63 miles) northeast of Kupang in East Nusa Tenggara province, agency official Anas Fauzi said.
A tsunami warning was not issued as it occurred on land at a depth of 10 kilometres.
Another 6.0-magnitude earthquake was recorded off Indonesia's Sumatra Island earlier today, the US Geological Survey said. It caused no major damage.
The Indonesian archipelago straddles several continental plates in an area known as the Pacific Ring of Fire, where seismic and volcanic activity is recorded on an almost daily basis.
