JAKARTA (Reuters) – A series of brawny earthquakes impact the Indonesian island of Sulawesi primeval on Monday, harmful houses and feat panic, officials said, but they had no articulate on casualties.
Reports from the area said the relatively shallow quake meet after 6 a.m. (7 p.m. EDT) impact 55 km (33 miles) south of Kendari, the regional top of over 300,000 people in Southeast Sulawesi.
At small three brawny aftershocks followed the initial magnitude 6.2 quake over the next pair of hours, officials said.
"There are houses damaged. People are panicking and hit hurried discover from their houses," said Asep Jaelani, an authorised at South Sulawesi's quake agency. "No wave warning has been issued as the epicenter of the quake was inland."
He had no reports of casualties.
"It module be change strongly there but it won't be devastating," Rahmat Triyono, an authorised at Indonesia's domestic meteorology agency, said.
"Looking at the map, the epicentre is inland, but meet at the tip, and there are individual small islands there, so it module be change there, too."
The United States Geological Survey said the quake occurred at 2307 GMT, 67 miles east of Baubau at a relatively shallow depth of 5.8 miles.
(Reporting by Olivia Rondonuwu and Telly Nathalia; Writing by Alan Raybould; Editing by Jonathan Thatcher)
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