{"id":23304,"date":"2025-08-12T18:29:19","date_gmt":"2025-08-12T12:59:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mediapbn.com\/?p=23304"},"modified":"2025-08-12T18:29:19","modified_gmt":"2025-08-12T12:59:19","slug":"earthquake-of-magnitude-6-3-jolts-indonesia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mediapbn.com\/?p=23304","title":{"rendered":"Earthquake of magnitude 6.3 jolts Indonesia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Jakarta [Indonesia], August 12 \u2014 A 6.3-magnitude earthquake struck Indonesia\u2019s West Papua region on Tuesday, according to the National Center for Seismology (NCS). <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">The tremor occurred at 13:54 IST at a depth of 39 km, with coordinates 2.09\u00b0S, 138.81\u00b0E.<\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Just days earlier, on August 7, a magnitude 4.9 earthquake hit Northern Sumatra at a depth of 106 km.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Indonesia, 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