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Moderate quake strikes off Sulawesi, Indonesia

Updated: 2011-09-13 By

• An earthquake with the magnitude of 5.1 jolted Sulawesi of Indonesia on Monday, the Meteorology and Geophysics Agency reported here.

  The quake struck at 14:30 p.m. Jakarta time (0730 GMT) with epicenter at 108 km northeast Melonguane of North Sulawesi and with the depth at 132 km, the agency said.

  Indonesia sits on a vulnerable quake-hit zone, the so called " the Pacific Ring of Fire."

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