Map showing epicentre of magnitude 7.4 earthquake in the Northern Molucca Sea region, Indonesia<\/a><\/p>\nThe authorities have urged the public to remain vigilant. \u201cAt this stage, caution is still required, particularly for communities living along the coast,\u201d a spokesperson for BNPB said in a statement, telling residents to refrain from returning to beaches or coastal areas until authorities confirmed it was safe to do so.<\/p>\n
A 70-year-old woman died in North Sulawesi\u2019s Minahasa district, and another resident was injured after the quake.<\/p>\n
Images showed a sports complex in North Sumatra that was damaged, with mangled wall panels and metal bars lying across the ground outside.<\/p>\n
BNPB said initial assessments showed \u201cminor to moderate\u201d damage to buildings in areas of Ternate, which has a population of about 205,000. A church in the Batang Dua Island district was damaged, as were two houses in South Ternates. In Bitung, efforts to assess the damage were continuing, the agency said.<\/p>\n
The quake was initially recorded at a magnitude of 7.8, the US Geological Survey said.<\/p>\n
Japan\u2019s meteorological agency said \u201cslight sea level changes\u201d might occur along Japan\u2019s coast but that no tsunami damage was expected.<\/p>\n
The Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology and Australia\u2019s Bureau of Meteorology later confirmed there was no tsunami threat to their territories.<\/p>\n
An Agence France-Presse journalist in Manado, North Sulawesi province, said the shaking woke him and others in the city, who rushed outdoors. \u201cI immediately woke up and left my house. People [were] immediately scrambling outside,\u201d he said. \u201cThere is a school and the pupils rushed outside.\u201d<\/p>\n
He said the shaking persisted for \u201cquite long\u201d but he did not witness \u201csignificant damage\u201d.<\/p>\n
Indonesia, a vast archipelago of more than 280 million people, is prone to earthquakes because of its location on the \u201cring of fire\u201d, an arc of volcanoes and faultlines in the Pacific basin.<\/p>\n
In 2022, a magnitude 5.6 earthquake killed at least 602 people in West Java\u2019s Cianjur city, the deadliest one in Indonesia since a 2018 quake and tsunami in Sulawesi killed more than 4,300 people.<\/p>\n
In 2004, an extremely powerful Indian Ocean quake set off a tsunami that killed more than 230,000 people in a dozen countries, most of them in Indonesia\u2019s Aceh province.<\/p>\n
This area of the Molucca Sea often experiences moderate to large earthquakes, according to the US Geological Survey. Over the past 50 years, nine other earthquakes with a magnitude higher than seven have occurred within 250km of Thursday\u2019s earthquake, though few have caused major damage because of their location at sea.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"One person has been killed after a 7.4 magnitude earthquake struck Indonesia\u2019s Ternate island, damaging buildings and triggering…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":577012,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":{"0":"post-577011","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/577011","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=577011"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/577011\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/577012"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=577011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=577011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=577011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}