Buildings shook as a 6.4-magnitude earthquake struck off East Timor

(Reuters) – An earthquake of magnitude 6.4 struck off the coast of East Timor on Friday, prompting some people in the capital, Dili, to flee buildings, although a tsunami was ruled out, the European-Mediterranean Seismological Center (EMSC) said.

There were no immediate reports of damage or injuries, but eyewitnesses said that the quake was strongly felt by residents. A video that went viral on social media showed people walking out of a shopping mall in Dili by stairs.

“It’s very big,” Frances Soni, information director for GMN Television in East Timor, told Reuters in a text message.

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“Our staff ran out of the building because it was shivering.”

The Indonesian Meteorology, Climatology and Geophysics Agency (BMKG) said the quake had not issued a tsunami warning.

The earthquake was felt in the Australian city of Darwin, more than 700 kilometers (435 miles) away, according to Australian media reports and residents’ social media posts.

East Timor and neighboring Indonesia are located on both sides of the so-called “Pacific Ring of Fire”, which is a seismically active region, where different plates meet on the Earth’s crust and cause a large number of earthquakes and volcanoes.

EMSC said the quake occurred at a depth of 10 kilometers and struck about 29 kilometers east and southeast of Lospalos. The US Geological Survey (USGS) said the quake had a magnitude of 6.1 on the Richter scale and a depth of 50 km.

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Additional reporting by Angie Teo in Jakarta, Ed Davies in Sydney and Chobham Kalia in Bengaluru; Editing by Martin Petty

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