An earthquake measuring 5.7 on the Richter scale struck the Indonesian island of Sulawesi today, Sunday.

The Indonesia Meteorological Agency said in a statement that the epicenter of the earthquake was 54 km southwest of the Poso region of the Sulawesi Islands, at a depth of 10 km underground. < / p>

The authority did not issue a warning about the possibility of a tsunami after the earthquake, which did not result in casualties and losses according to the preliminary data.

It is worth noting that, last year, Indonesia witnessed 11,577 earthquakes.

On September 28, a 6-meter-high tsunami swept through the cities of Palo and Dungala, Sulawesi Island, after a violent earthquake of 7.5 magnitude, killing 4,000. And 340 people.

Indonesia is located on the so-called belt of fire, an arc of fault lines revolving around the Pacific basin exposed to frequent earthquakes and volcanic eruptions.

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