An offshore earthquake with a magnitude of 7.0 struck near eastern Indonesia's Maluku islands on Wednesday, the US Geological Survey (USGS) reported, triggering a tsunami warning.
The epicentre of the tremor was located 150 kilometres north-west of the eastern Indonesian island of Halmahera, at a depth of 48 kilometres.
“Hazardous tsunami waves are possible for coasts located within 300 kilometres of the earthquake epicentre,” the NWS Pacific Tsunami Warning Centre in Hawaii said in its warning after the quake.
The quake occurred around 1pm local time, and was revised down from an initial magnitude of 7.2 reported by the USGS.
Indonesia's Meteorology, Climatology and Geophysics Agency warned of possible aftershocks.
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