A shallow powerful quake with magnitude of 7.5 struck eastern parts of Indonesia on Monday morning, the country's meteorology agency said in Jakarta.

The quake damaged several buildings and injured one person in Gorontalo province, but there was no fatality, meteorology agency said.

The quake jolted after midnight with epicenter at 138 kilometers northwest of the province and 10 kilometers in depth, an official of the agency said.

Then the quake was followed by two strong after shocks of 6.0 and 5.7 magnitudes, said the official.

The agency issued a warning of tsunami but then lifted it.

Indonesia has just launched high-tech faster tsunami warning system cost over 130 million U.S. dollars to prevent a repeat of massive death as it was on December 2004, when tsunami killed over170,000 people in Aceh, Indonesia.

The catastrophe also killed those on coastal areas of Asia, from Sri Lanka and India to Thailand, the Maldives, bringing the total death toll to about 230,000 people.

(Xinhua News Agency November 17, 2008)