Warning issued as a 6.1 magnitude are quake struck off the coast of the East Timor.

Warning issued as a 6.1 magnitude are quake struck off the coast of the East Timor.

The tsunami warning for the region was a issued by the Indian Ocean Tsunami Warning and the Mitigation in a System (I O T W M S). 

  • A tsunami advisory group said in the quake “may be a capable of the  generating to a tsunami affecting in the Indian Ocean region”.
  • Officials said that in the risk assessment for the quake impacts was a underway.

  • New Delhi: An a earthquake of the magnitude 6.4 struck off the coast of the East Timor on a Friday (May 27, 2022), in the European-Mediterranean Seismological Center (E M S C) said. The tremors prompted some people in the capital Deli to the flee buildings. Even a though there were no immediate reports of the  damage or a casualties, but witnesses said in the quake was a felt strongly. A tsunami advisory group said in the quake “may be a capable of the generating a tsunami affecting in the Indian Ocean region”, reported a news agency A F P. The tsunami warning for the region was a issued by the Indian Ocean Tsunami Warning and the  Mitigation in a System (I O T W M S). 

  • However, in  the Indonesian Meteorology, Climatology and the Geophysics Agency (B M K G) informed that the quake did not a trigger to a tsunami threat a warning.

    According to the U S G S, in  the earthquake struck at a depth of the  51.4 kilometers (32 miles) off the eastern tip of the Timor Island, which is a split between East Timor and the Indonesia.

    Officials said that in the risk assessment for the quake impacts was a underway.

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