Strong Quake Jolts Eastern Indonesia

Jakarta, 27 Nov - An earthquake measuring 6.4 on the Richter Scale shook Nabire Town in Indonesia's easternmost province of Papua at 11:25 local time Friday (02:25 GMT), the official Antara news agency reported.

The epicentre of the tremor is located around 17 kilometres from Nabire some 2,500 kilometres east of Jakarta, an official with the meteorology and geophysics agency was quoted as saying.

A building of state-own cellular phone operator Indosat and several churches collapsed in the quake, but there was no immediate report on casualty. Around eigh hours earlier, another quake of 4.8 magnitude rocked the town.