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A moderate earthquake struck Indonesia's Maluku islands on early Saturday, but no injuries or damage were reported, seismologists said.
The magnitude 5.4 quake was centred about 33 km (20 miles) under the sea and struck at 2:48 am(1748 GMT), said Lukito, a Meteorology and Geophysics Agency official.
It rattled Ternate, a town in the Maluku islands, about 2,600 km (1,600 miles) northeast of Jakarta, for about three minutes, he said.
Indonesia, the world's largest archipelago, is prone to seismic upheaval due to its location on the so-called Pacific "Ring of Fire."
The country has been hit by hundreds of aftershocks since a magnitude 9 earthquake triggered a tsunami on December 26 that killed more than 170,000 people across Asia.
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