JAYAPURA: One person went missing while several building were damages when a high intensity earthquake of magnitude 7.0 jolted remote eastern Indonesia on Tuesday, seismologists said.
No tsunami warning was issued after the quake, which struck inland in a mountainous, jungle-clad area of Papua province that is sparsely populated.
The tremor hit at 6:41 am (2141 GMT Monday), almost 250 kilometres (150 miles) west of the provincial capital Jayapura at a depth of 52 kilometres, the US Geological Survey said.
