Strong Quake rocks Indonesia's Sulawesi island

JAKARTA-An earthquake measuring 5.7 on the Richter scale shook the northern part of Indonesia's Sulawesi island on Thursday but there were no immediate reports of casualties or damage, a meteorology official said.The undersea quake was centered 118 km (73 miles) northwest of Gorontalo at a depth of 35 km, said Andi Zulfikar of the Meteorology and Geophysics Agency.The United States Geological Survey put the magnitude of the quake at 6.0.Indonesia suffers frequent earthquakes since it lies on an area of intense seismic activity where a number of tectonic plates collide.

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