KUALA LUMPUR, May 6 (Bernama) -- A moderate earthquake measuring 5.6 on the Richter scale struck the Minahassa Peninsula area, Sulawesi, Indonesia, at 6.57 am today.
The Malaysian Meteorological Department (MetMalaysia), in a statement, said that the earthquake occurred at coordinates 0.1 degrees south and 123.8 degrees east, approximately 103 kilometres southeast of Gorontalo, Indonesia, at a depth of 79 kilometres.
However, according to initial assessments, the earthquake did not pose any tsunami threat to Malaysia.
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