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Moderate earthquake jolts western coast of Indonesia's Java

Dec 2, 2007, 1:24 GMT

Jakarta - A 6.0-magnitude earthquake jolted the western coast of Indonesia's Java island Sunday morning, but there were no immediate reports of injury or property damage, seismologists said. The quake struck the Ujung Kulon National Park area on the western tip of Java at about 6:01 am (2301 GMT Saturday), with its epicentre in the Indian Ocean about 75-kilometres south-east of Ujung Kulon, Indonesia's Meteorology and Geophysics Agency said. It occurred about 32-kilometres beneath the seabed. The agency said the quake, the latest in a series to hit Indonesia in recent days, has no potential of triggering a tsunami. Indonesia, the world's largest archipelago nation, is prone to earthquakes because the country sits atop the Pacific 'Ring of Fire,' where continental plates collide, making earthquakes and volcanic eruptions frequent. © 2007 dpa - Deutsche Presse-Agentur

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