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By Ludya Arica Bakti in Indonesia (Pakistan News & Features Services)  An earthquake of magnitude 5.8 occurred on the afternoon of June 9, making residents in South Buru Regency panicky and scattered outside the house. They claimed to have felt the tremor for at least five seconds. The earthquake shock was also felt in other areas of Buru Regency. The Indonesian Agency for Meteorology, Climatology and Geophysics (BMKG) released the earthquake parameters around 11.56 West Indonesia Time.  The strength of the earthquake which was updated to magnitude 5.8 occurred at a depth of 20 km and the location of this seismic earthquake was 68 km to the south of Namrole City, South Buru Regency in Maluku province. The earthquake had no tsunami potential. Based on the shock map, the BMKG records earthquake shocks which is measured by the Modified Mercalli intensity (MMI) units as Namrole III-IV MMI, Piru III MMI, Namlea II-III MMI and Ambon II MMI.  The MMI Sc...