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Magnitude 6 earthquake hits Indonesia :International News

A quake of extent 6 struck south of the city of Raba on Indonesia's focal island of Sumbawa on Tuesday, the U.S. Land Survey (USGS) said. 

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World News :There was no quick wave cautioning or reports of harm or losses from the shudder, which hit at a profundity of 25 km (16 miles) around 219 km (136 miles) south of Raba in the east of Sumbawa, which frames some portion of West Nusa Tenggara territory. 

The USGS had first put the tremor greatness at 6.1. The Hawaii-based Pacific Tsunami Warning Center said on its site there was no present cautioning as a result. 

Indonesia is a debacle inclined archipelago that straddles the seismically dynamic Pacific "Ring of Fire". It endured its deadliest year in over 10 years in 2018 as a progression of quakes and waves slaughtered in excess of 3,000 individuals. 

Around 430 individuals were murdered, with somewhere around 159 absent, after a tidal wave off the west bank of Java amid the Christmas season evoked recollections of the Indian Ocean tidal wave activated by an enormous seismic tremor on Dec. 26, 2004. 

That fiasco slaughtered 226,000 individuals in 14 nations, incorporating more than 120,000 in Indonesia. 

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