KUALA LUMPUR, July 26 -- A strong earthquake with a magnitude of 6.2 on the Richter scale struck the Minahassa Peninsula in Sulawesi, Indonesia at 8.09 pm on Monday.
According to the Malaysian Meteorological Department, the quake was detected 194 kilometres (km) southwest of Gorontalo at a depth of 10 km.
However, it posed no tsunami threat to Malaysia, the department said in a statement.
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