The \u200bepicentre of the \u2060earthquake was about \u2060120km (75 miles) from Ternate, in Indonesia\u2019s North Maluku \u200cprovince.<\/p>\n
Published On 1 Apr 20261 Apr 2026<\/p>\n
A magnitude 7.4 earthquake has hit the \u2060Northern Molucca Sea off the coast of the city of \u2060Ternate, in eastern Indonesia, triggering a tsunami warning for nearby islands.<\/p>\n
The United States Geological Survey (USGS) said Thursday\u2019s quake, which was initially recorded at a magnitude of 7.8, struck at a depth of 35km (22 miles), greater than the early figure of 10km (six miles). There were no immediate reports of injuries.<\/p>\n
The epicentre of the \u2060earthquake was about \u2060120km (75 miles) from Ternate, in Indonesia\u2019s North Maluku \u200cprovince.<\/p>\n
Local authorities in some cities, such as Ternate and Tidore, were urged to prepare citizens for evacuation, while news channel Metro TV broadcast images of damaged buildings.<\/p>\n
According to the US Tsunami Warning System, dangerous \u2060tsunami waves were possible \u2060within 1,000km (621 miles) of the epicentre along the coasts of Indonesia, the Philippines \u2060and Malaysia.<\/p>\n
Waves of height ranging from 0.3 metres to 1 metre (0.98 feet to 3.28 feet) above the tide level could hit some coastal areas of Indonesia, \u2060the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center said.<\/p>\n
It also warned of the risk of waves less than 0.3 \u2060metres over tide levels for the coasts \u2060of Guam, Japan, Malaysia, Papua New Guinea, the Philippines and Taiwan.
Japan may see waves of up to 0.2 metres (eight inches), but no damage is expected, the Japan Meteorological Agency said, as \u200cit warned a tsunami could occur in the Pacific.<\/p>\n
Indonesia straddles the so-called Pacific Ring of Fire, an area of high seismic activity where tectonic plates \u200cmeet \u200cand earthquakes are frequen<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The \u200bepicentre of the \u2060earthquake was about \u2060120km (75 miles) from Ternate, in Indonesia\u2019s North Maluku \u200cprovince. Published…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":579769,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[77,43179,43,4805,44,41,39,42,40,9990],"class_list":["post-579768","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-asia-pacific","tag-earthquakes","tag-headlines","tag-indonesia","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-tsunami"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/579768","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=579768"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/579768\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/579769"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=579768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=579768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=579768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}