6.3-magnitude Earthquake Strikes Off Central Indonesia

Jakarta  - An earthquake measuring 6.

3 on the Richter scale struck off Indonesia's North Sulawesi province Friday morning, seismologists said.

The quake's epicentre lay about 101 kilometres south-east of Gorontalo in northern Sulawesi at about 4:40 am Jakarta time (2140 GMT Thursday), and occurred about 95 kilometres beneath the seabed, the National Meteorology and Geophysics Agency (BMG) said.