Moderate 5.5 quake strikes Indonesia’s Banda Sea

KUALA LUMPUR, May 11 — A moderate earthquake measuring 5.5 on the Richter scale struck the Banda Sea, Indonesia at 9.06am today.

The Malaysian Meteorological Department, in a statement, said that the tremors occurred 332 km southeast of Ambon, Indonesia at a depth of 10 km.

However, it did not pose a tsunami threat to Malaysia. — Bernama

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