JAKARTA An coastal earthquake with a magnitude of7.0 megahit near eastern Indonesia’s Maluku islets on Wednesday, the US Geological Survey( USGS) reported, driving a riffle warning.

The center of the earthquake was located 150 kilometers( 93 long hauls) northwest of the eastern Indonesian islet of Halmahera, at a depth of 48 kilometers.

“ Dangerous riffle swells are possible for beachfronts located within 300 kilometers of the earthquake center, ” the NWS Pacific Tsunami Warning Center in Hawaii said in its warning after the earthquake.

The earthquake passed around 1306 pm original time( 0606 GMT). The earthquake was revised down from an original magnitude of7.2 reported by the USGS.

Indonesia’s Meteorology, Climatology and Geophysics Agency( BMKG) advised of possible foreshocks.

Indonesia gests frequent seismic and stormy exertion due to its position on the Pacific “ Ring of Fire ”, where monumental plates collide.

On November 21, a5.6- magnitude earthquake hit West Java fiefdom on Indonesia’s main islet of Java, killing 602 people.

utmost of the victims were killed when structures collapsed or in landslides touched off by the earthquake.

A major earthquake off Sumatra on December 26, 2004, set off an Indian Ocean riffle that killed further than,000 people as far down as Sri Lanka, India and Thailand.

That important9.1- magnitude earthquake touched off 100- bottom swells that hit the reinforcement of Banda Aceh on Sumatra.