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Urgent: Strong earthquake jolts off eastern Indonesia

Xinhua, January 12, 2016 Adjust font size:

An earthquake measuring 6.4 on the Richter scale rocked eastern parts of Indonesia on Monday night, the Meteorology and Geophysics Agency reported here on Tuesday.

But the USGS said that the quake was at 6.9 magnitude. Endit