JAKARTA: A 6.7 magnitude earthquake struck off Indonesia’s easternmost province of Papua on Friday, the US Geological Survey (USGS) said, with reports of minor damage to some houses on remote islands but no tsunami warning issued.

The epicenter of the quake, which struck at 9:31 a.m. (10:31 a.m. in Manila), was 247 kilometers southwest of Nabire in Papua and 108 kilometers north of Dobo in the Aru Islands, USGS said. It hit at a depth of 24 kilometers.

The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center website said that there was no current warning or advisory in effect while social media reports said that the quake was felt as far away as Darwin, in northern Australia.

“There is no tsunami potential. The quake was felt in towns of Nabire, Wamena in Papua and the city of Ambon in Maluku islands,” said Indonesia’s Meteorology, Climatology and Geophysics Agency duty officer, Fauzi, who like many Indonesians goes by one name.

He added that the agency measured the quake at 7.0 magnitude.

A spokesman for the National Disaster Management Agency, Sutopo Purwo Nugroho, said that slight damage had been reported in the remote Aru islands in Maluku province, close to the epicenter of the quake.

“People panicked and rushed outside to a safe place. Some houses lightly damaged. There’s no reports of any victims,” he said.