A 5 magnitude earthquake shook Palu, capital of Central Sulawesi province, at 03.51 p.m. on Tuesday but there was no report of casualties or material damage, ANTARA reported. The quake's epicenter was in the sea 69 km southwest of Palu at a depth of 33 km, the Meteorology and Geophysics Agency (BMG) said in its website on Tuesday. The agency said two quakes with a magnitude of 5.2 rattled different parts of Papua province in the wee hours of Tuesday and two quakes with a magnitude of 5.2 and 4.9 shook several areas in North Maluku province before dawn on Tuesday. Indonesia sits on the Pacific "Ring of Fire", where the meeting of continental plates causes high volcanic and seismic activity. North Maluku and Papua lay at the meeting point of the country's two main chains of volcanoes.
