Residents Had Panic Earthquake in the Maluku Sea   
   

            JAKARTA - In the last few weeks are common in eastern Indonesia and the recent earthquake is an earthquake in the Maluku Sea. An earthquake measuring six on the Richter scale (SR) occurred on Sunday (07/12/2014) approximately at 5:05 pm. The epicenter was in the ocean 165 kilometers northwest of  West southeast Maluku . While the epicenter at a depth of 133 kilometers.

Head of Data Information and Public Relations of National Disaster Management Agency (BNPB), Sutopo Purwo Nugroho said BNPB post has been confirmed and analyzed the impact of the earthquake.

      "Vibrations felt pretty hard a few seconds. Residents had time to panic. There were no reports of damage to buildings. The impact of the earthquake is still done by monitoring BPBDs West Southeast Maluku District," said Sutopo.

Sutopo explained, the area around West Southeast Maluku and Maluku Southwestern is high earthquake-prone areas because it is at the confluence of the Indian subduction Australia and Eurasia. At the location of the epicenter is happening today is at the trough.

            The high activity of tectonic faults Wetar (Wetar Thrust) that stretches from the northern island of Alor up Romang Island he continued, causing frequent earthquakes large enough. Luckily enough the epicenter is 133 kilometers.

      "An earthquake of 7.4 magnitude have occurred in the same area on December 10, 2012," he said.