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<div><span class="fr-img-caption fr-fic fr-dib" style="width:960px;display:block" width="960"><span class="fr-img-wrap"><img src="https://od2-image-api.abs-cbn.com/prod/editorImage/177508552154317510734484421744771988046Screenshot 2025-04-16 at 10.52.14 AM.png.webp" style="width:960px;display:block;height:auto" class="fr-fic fr-dib" width="960"/><span class="fr-inner" style="text-align:left">An employee points at a graph registered by a seismograph. Olivier Morin, AFP/File</span></span></span></div><div><br/></div><p>A severe 7.4-magnitude offshore quake struck in eastern Indonesia on Thursday, the US Geological Survey (USGS) said, triggering a tsunami warning and up to 30-centimeter-high waves.</p><p>The quake hit at a depth of 35 kilometers in the Molucca Sea between the Sulawesi and Maluku island groups in the early morning, the USGS said.</p><p>The Hawaii-based Pacific Tsunami Warning Center (PTWC) said hazardous tsunami waves were possible within 1,000 kilometers of the epicenter along the coasts of Indonesia, the Philippines and Malaysia.</p><p>Waves of 30 centimeters were recorded within 30 minutes of the quake in North Maluku province north of the island of Ternate, Indonesia&#x27;s BMKG geological agency said in a statement.</p><p>Twenty-centimeter waves were logged in Bitung in northeastern Sulawesi.</p><p>Ternate resident Budi Nurgianto, 42, said he was inside his house when the tremor struck, sending people panicking outside.</p><p>&quot;The quake was felt strongly. I heard it first from the walls of the house that shook,&quot; he said.</p><p>&quot;When I went outside, there were many people outside. They were panicked. The quake was felt (for) quite long, more than a minute.</p><p>&quot;I even saw some people leaving their house without having finished their shower.&quot;</p><p>An AFP journalist in Manado on Sulawesi, about 300 kilometers west of Ternate by sea, said the shaking woke him and others in the city of around 450,000 people.</p><p>&quot;I immediately woke up and left my house. People (were) immediately scrambling outside. There is a school and the pupils rushed outside,&quot; he said.</p><p>The shaking persisted for &quot;quite long&quot; but he did not witness &quot;significant damage&quot;, he added.</p><p>The PTWC said tsunami waves &quot;reaching 0.3 to 1 meters above the tide level&quot; were possible for some coasts of Indonesia.</p><p>Smaller waves could also reach Guam, Japan, Malaysia, Palau, the Philippines and Taiwan.</p><p>&quot;Government agencies responsible for threatened coastal areas should take action to inform and instruct any coastal populations at risk,&quot; the PTWC said in a statement.</p><p>&quot;Persons located in threatened coastal areas should stay alert for information and follow instructions from national and local authorities.&quot;</p><p>Indonesia and neighbouring countries experience frequent earthquakes due to its location in the Pacific &quot;Ring of Fire&quot; -- an arc of intense seismic activity where tectonic plates collide that stretches from Japan through Southeast Asia and across the Pacific basin.</p><p>In 2004, a magnitude-9.1 quake struck Aceh province, causing a tsunami and killing more than 170,000 people in Indonesia.</p><div><a href="https://www.abs-cbn.com/spotlight/12/04/23/how-to-be-ready-for-quakes-whenever-they-strike">How to be ready for quakes whenever they strike</a></div><div><span class="fr-video fr-deletable fr-fvc fr-dvb fr-draggable" contenteditable="false" draggable="true"><iframe width="640" height="360" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/qR4BoKadX48?&amp;wmode=opaque&amp;rel=0" frameBorder="0" allowfullscreen="" class="fr-draggable"></iframe></span><br/></div><div><br/></div>

<p>A major 7.4-magnitude offshore quake struck in eastern Indonesia on Thursday, the US Geological Survey (USGS) said, with a US monitoring centre issuing a warning of possible "hazardous tsunami waves" within 1,000 kilometers of the epicenter. </p>

A major 7.4-magnitude offshore quake struck in eastern Indonesia on Thursday, the US Geological Survey (USGS) said, with a US monitoring centre issuing a warning of possible "hazardous tsunami waves" within 1,000 kilometers of the epicenter.

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7.4-magnitude quake off Indonesia triggers tsunami warning, waves

Agence France-Presse

Published April 02, 2026 07:19 AM PHT

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Updated April 02, 2026 08:53 AM PHT

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