almotamar.net Google - A powerful 7.3-magnitude earthquake struck Sunday under the Molucca Sea in northeastern Indonesia.
The quake's epicentre was about 130 kilometres from the city of Ternate, the U.S. Geological Survey said.
It had a depth of more than 10 kilometres below the ocean floor.
No tsunami warning has been issued, although the quake was large enough to cause the phenomenon.
People in Manado, the provincial capital on Sulawesi island, said buildings shook. Some ran from their homes in panic, witnesses said.
Indonesia, the world's largest archipelago, is prone to seismic upheaval because of its location on the so-called Pacific "Ring of Fire," an arc of volcanoes and fault lines encircling the Pacific Basin