A magnitude 6 earthquake struck Minahassa Peninsula, Indonesia, on Sunday (August 16, 2026), the German Research Centre for Geosciences said.
Some smaller tsunamis were reported. (With Reuters, AP and ANI inputs) The quake was at a depth of 77 km (47.85 miles), GFZ said. Sharing the details in a post on X, the National Center for Seismology said that the earthquake of magnitude 6.0 struck the Gulf of Tomini. As per the NCS, the earthquake occurred at a depth of 68 kilometres at 21:55 IST. It said, “EQ of M: 6.0, On: 15/08/2026 21:55:18 IST, Lat: 0.174 N, Long: 120.312 E, Depth: 68 Km, Location: Gulf of Tomini. This comes as a magnitude 6.5 quake struck Indonesia on Saturday afternoon (August 15, 2026), hours after a devastating 7.7-magnitude quake in the morning killed more than 40 people, CBS News reported.
Authorities issued a tsunami warning and urged coastal residents to move to higher ground but later lifted the warning when Indonesia’s meteorological agency said monitoring showed no significant sea-level changes that posed a threat to coastal communities.
