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1st LD Writethru: 6.0-magnitude earthquake jolts off eastern Indonesia

JAKARTA, April 9 (Xinhua) — An earthquake with a magnitude of 6.0 hit Indonesia’s eastern province of West Papua on Tuesday, but did not trigger a tsunami warning, the country’s meteorology, climatology and geophysics agency said.

The agency initially reported the quake’s magnitude to be 6.1 before revising it.

The earthquake occurred at 07:02 a.m. Jakarta time (0002 GMT) with its epicenter situated 46 k