BMKG Says M 7.5 Earthquake In Flores Sea Is Not Related To Volcanic Activity

JAKARTA - The Meteorology, Climatology and Geophysics Agency (BMKG) said that the 7.5 magnitude earthquake in the Flores Sea, NTT on Tuesday, December 14 was not related to volcanic activity. volcanic activity," said the Head of BMKG, Dwikorita Karnawati in a virtual press conference that was attended from Jakarta on Tuesday, December 14. However, he said that currently his party had not seen any impact from the earthquake in the Flores Sea to the volcano. volcanic activity is the Center for Volcanology and Geological Hazard Mitigation (PVMBG). Currently, they are also working on Mount Semeru and Mount Awu. On that occasion, Dwikorita also said that the earthquake in the Flores Sea was a shallow earthquake caused by active fault or fault activity in the area. What happened was a shallow earthquake due to active fault or fault activity in the Flores Sea," he said as quoted by Antara. Currently, he continued, the BMKG had ended the tsunami early warning for the earthquake with two hours since the first earthquake occurred, no sea level rise was detected anymore. "It's been more than two hours after the incident and no sea level rise has been detected anymore, so the tsunami early warning has ended," said Dwikorita.