A strong earthquake with a magnitude of 6.6 rocked eastern Indonesia early Thursday, prompting a tsunami alert.
The country's meteorological agency said the tremor was centered 275 kilometers southwest of Maluku province at a depth of 10 kilometers.
The agency said the quake had the potential to cause a tsunami, but later retracted it after no waves were reported.
There were no immediate reports of damage or injuries as a result of the quake.
The Indonesian archipelago is prone to earthquakes in a belt of intense seismic activity around the rim of the Pacific Ocean.
In December 2004, a tsunami triggered by an underwater earthquake killed an estimated 230,000 people near Indian Ocean coastlines, including more than 160,000 people in Indonesia's Aceh province.
Some information for this report provided by AP and AFP.
