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Two more earthquakes of magnitude 5.9 and 6.0 rocks Indonesia

First Published: 2nd October, 2018 18:38 IST

After the deadly earthquake that struck the Indonesian island of Sulawesi and triggered a tsunami with more than thousand people killed, two more earthquakes rock Indonesia. Two earthquakes measuring 5.9 on the richter

After the deadly earthquake that struck the Indonesian island of Sulawesi and triggered a tsunami with more than thousand people killed, two more earthquakes rock Indonesia.

Two earthquakes measuring 5.9 on the richter scale and the second one about few minutes later of magnitude 6.0 struck the eastern Indonesian island of Sumba on Tuesday morning.

Meanwhile, no reports of any casualty or loss of property due to the quake was reported so far.

Sumba lies nearly 1,600 kilometres south of Sulawesi island which was hit by a powerful earthquake and tsunami on Friday.

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