MOSCOW (Sputnik) — The epicenter of the quake was located 194 kilometers (120.5 miles) southeast of the city Enarotali, Papua province, on the island of New Guinea, at a depth of 10 kilometers (6.2 miles), according to the agency.
There have been neither immediate reports of damages or casualties, nor a tsunami threat.
Indonesia is located in the so-called Ring of Fire quake zone, where a large number of earthquakes and volcanic eruptions occur. The seismologists annually register here some 6,000 earthquakes above the 4.0 magnitude.
