Three earthquakes occurred last night in Indonesia
Baku, June 14 (AZERTAC). The epicenter of the most powerful quake was located off the coast of Indonesia's North Sulawesi province, 178 km south-east of Tahuna on Sangihe islands off the north-eastern tip of Sulawesi. Its center was located at a depth of ten kilometers in the Molucca Sea. Warning about the possibility of a tsunami is not proclaimed, and in relation to the remoteness of the source from settlements NUMKG does not expect any significant damage. Already on Tuesday morning in the northern part of Sumatra Island with a three-hour interval followed by two earthquakes of magnitude 5.5 on the Richter scale. The epicenter was located, respectively, 22 and 30 kilometers from the city Tarutung in the province of North Sumatra. Hearth quake was located ten kilometers below the surface. According to the Malaysian newspaper Star, these two earthquakes were felt even in large parts of the Malay Peninsula, but the victims and the destruction of the information has yet been received. Indonesia is one of the most seismically active zones of the planet and is part of the so-called Pacific Ring of Fire (powerful tectonic fault). In this region of the globe are the most active tectonic plates, one of which moves at a speed of seven centimeters a year. Each year, seismologists register here 6-7 thousand earthquakes with a magnitude above 4.0. In 2009, victims of a series of powerful quakes in the province of West Sumatra were more than a thousand people, and in 2004 the western coast of Sumatra, there was the strongest in the world in the last 40 years earthquake. Caused by the tsunami claimed the lives of hundreds of thousands of people in 12 Indian Ocean countries.
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