Powerful quake hits eastern Indonesia

JAKARTA, April 3 (Xinhua) -- An earthquake with magnitude of 6.4 rocked Maluku province in eastern parts of Indonesia on Thursday morning with no damage or casualties were reported, the country's meteorology and disaster management agencies said here.

The quake struck at 02:10 Jakarta time (1910GMT Wednesday) with epicenter located about 223 kilometers northwest Saumlaki town of the province and 136 kilometers in depth, an official of the meteorology agency said here.

"There is no damage or casualties, because the epicenter is far and deep," an official of the national Disaster Management Agencytold Xinhua here.

Indonesia is located in a vulnerable quake-hit zone so called the "Pacific Ring of Fire", where two continental plates meet that cause frequent and seismic volcanic movement.