A strong tremor with magnitude of 6.1 struck quake-hit area of Papua in easternmost of Indonesia on Wednesday morning, a late aftershock of a series of tremors hit since Sunday, but no new damage or casualty has been reported yet, meteorology agency said in Jakarta.
The quake struck some 241 kilometers east of Sorong town near Manokwari and the epicenter was 50 kilometers deep, Rahma, an official of the agency told Xinhua.
"So far, there has been no serious new damage or casualty cased by the tremor," George Jaleskona, an official at the provincial meteorology agency told Xinhua over phone from the main city of Manokwari.
The Sunday's main shock of 7.6 magnitude has killed one person, injured 50 others, displaced over 14,000 people and devastated hundreds of building, scores of bridges and other infrastructure in Manokwari town.
Residence in the town fear of further aftershocks, which could collapsed damaged buildings. Most of them live in makeshift tents.
After the 6.1 tremors this morning, some moderate tremors continued to hit the province, according to the meteorology agency.
Indonesian have recently launched an early tsunami warning system across the country to prevent a repeat of the 2004 massive death caused by tsunami. The catastrophe four years ago devastated Indian Ocean community and killed more than 230,000 people, over 170,000 of them in Aceh at northern tip of Sumatra Island of Indonesia.
Indonesia, with over 230 million population and 17,000 islands, sits at a vulnerable zone so called "the Pacific Ring of Fire" where two continental plates, stretching from the Western Hemisphere through Japan and Southeast Asia, meet that cause frequent volcanic movements.
(Xinhua News Agency January 7, 2009)
