(Bloomberg) -- Early tsunami alert was issued by Indonesia’s Meteorological Agency, known as BMKG, after a 7.1 magnitude earthquake hit Ternate in the country’s North Maluku province.
Earthquake erupted at 22:08 p.m. Jakarta time
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