Mochammad Riyadi, from the Indonesian meteorology, climatology and geophysics agency, said there were no reports of casualties or damages.
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Tsunami program manager Cindi Preller said the threshold for the occurrence of a tsunami is a 7.0-magnitude natural disaster, which might be enough to generate a tsunami near the quake’s origin.
The U.S. Geological Survey said the magnitude-7.0 underground quake struck at 6:41 a.m. Tuesday (2141 GMT) and was centered 247 kilometers (153 miles) west of Jayapura, the provincial capital of Papua.
The tremble was felt by residents in elements of Distance Coffee for SOME seconds, the National Disaster Mitigation Firm said in a record.
The Australia-Pacific plate boundary is over 4000 km long on the northern margin, from the Sunda (Java) trench in the west to the Solomon Islands in the east, the site explains.
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Indonesia, home 129 active volcanoes, lies within the Pacific’s “Ring of Fire”, where tectonic plates collide and cause frequent seismic and volcanic activity. A tsunami that slain 230,000 persons in twelve nations, mostly in the Aceh state in Indonesia were activated by a huge quake off Sumatra island in 2004.
