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Moderate quake hits Banda Sea, Indonesia

05/05/2019 08:37 PM

KUALA LUMPUR, May 5 (Bernama) -- A 5.4-magnitude moderate earthquake struck Banda Sea in the Indonesian Maluku Islands at 5.40 pm today. 

The Malaysian Meteorological Department, in a statement today, said the quake with a depth of 305 kilometres (km) was reported to have occurred 275 km south of Ambon.  

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

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