No tsunami detected after 7.6 quake strikes eastern Indonesia

Indonesia issued a tsunami warning for almost three hours after a 7.6 earthquake struck off Indonesia’s Tanimbar islands before 3 a.m. local time on Tuesday, but no significant changes in sea level were recorded, local media quoted an official as saying.
The powerful quake, locally measured as a magnitude 7.5, was at a depth of 130 km (80.78 miles), the country’s geophysics agency BMKG said.
The European Mediterranean Seismological Centre (EMSC) recorded the magnitude as 7.6, after initially reporting it as a magnitude 7.7. The U.S. Geological Survey also pegged it as a 7.6 magnitude. Indonesia’s disaster agency BNPB officials were checking for the extent of the quake’s impact, but early reports showed light to medium damage to buildings, its spokesperson said.