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6.1-magnitude earthquake shakes east Indonesia

JAKARTA, Aug. 29 (Xinhua) — A 6.1-magnitude earthquake rocked Indonesia’s eastern province of Maluku on Tuesday without causing a tsunami, the country’s meteorology, climatology and geophysics agency said.

The agency had first released the earthquake at 6.4 Richter scale before revising it.

The quake occurred at 11:34 a.m. Jakarta time (0434 GMT), with its epicenter at 279 km southeast of Maluku Tengah (