The Outside Of The North Sulawesi KONI Building Was Damaged By An Earthquake With A Magnitude Of 6.2 Halmahera Barat

The outside of the Koni North Sulawesi building was damaged by an earthquake with a magnitude of 6.2 centered in Sahu, West Halmahera, North Maluku, Monday (11/9/2023). ANTARA/Jerie Darondo

MANADO- The outside of the North Sulawesi KONI Hall B building (Sulut) in Sario Manado, was damaged by an earthquake with a magnitude of 6.2 at around 20.51 WITA.

General Secretary of the North Sulawesi KONI Tony Skin, said the accessories on the outside of the west side of the building were damaged.

"While the inside of the building is safe," said Tony, while at the KONI location, reported by ANTARA, Monday, September 11.

He said, when the earthquake occurred there were children while doing exercises inside the building, then they left.

Dandim 1309 Manado Lt. Col. Inf. Himawan Teddy Laksono appealed to the public not to approach the building, to anticipate aftershocks.

"We secure this location so that people do not approach the disaster site, to anticipate aftershocks," he said.

According to Teddy, from the regional patrols carried out, and monitoring was carried out, only the KONI building was damaged by the earthquake.

"There have been no other reports of damage, only this KONI building," he said when met at the scene.

Previously, the Meteorology, Climatology and Geophysics Agency (BMKG) said that the Sahu area, West Halmahera, North Maluku, was rocked by an earthquake with a magnitude of 6.2 due to the subduction activity of the Maluku Sea plate.

Head of the BMKG Earthquake and Tsunami Center, Daryono, said the epicenter of the earthquake was located at coordinates 1.18 North Latitude (LU) and 127.44 East Longitude (BT), or precisely located on land at a depth of 152 km.

"By paying attention to the location of the epicenter and the depth of the hypocenter, the earthquake that occurred was an intermediate type of earthquake due to the subduction activity of the Maluku Sea plate," he said.

The results of the analysis of the source mechanism show that this earthquake has a thrust fault mechanism.

Daryono also updated information which initially had a magnitude of 5.9 to a magnitude of 6.2.

He said the earthquake that occurred at 19.51 WIB was felt in Jailolo, Manado City, Sangihe, and Kotamobagu, with an intensity scale of III-IV MMI (Modified Mercally Intensity). This means that during the day many people feel in the house, outside by several people, pottery bursts, windows/doors burst and walls rang.