An earthquake measuring 5.4 on the Richter scale jolted Saumlaki, the capital of Maluku Tenggara Barat District, Maluku Province, on Tuesday at 0.09 pm Western Indonesian Standard Time (WIB). The quake's epicenter was located at 7.13 degrees southern latitude and 130.29 degrees eastern longitude, around 147 km northwest of Saumlaki, and at a depth of 132 km, Benny Sipolo, ANTARA quoted the head of the Ambon geophysical station as saying here on Tuesday. The temblor, however, did not have potential to trigger a subsequent tsunami, he said.
