Earthquake kills at least 20 in Indonesia

  • 5 years ago
At least 20 people including an infant were killed by a 6.5-magnitude earthquake that hit Indonesia’s eastern Maluku Islands on September 26, 2019, local officials said.  Aftershocks and landslides injured dozens more and forced the evacuation of over 2,000 people in and around Ambon, a town 37 kilometres (23 miles) southwest of the quake’s epicentre. The deadly earthquake hit Maluku province nearly a year after a magnitude 7.5 quake and tsunami struck the Indonesian island of Sulawesi on…

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