Xinhua Asia-Pacific news summary at 1600 GMT, Sept. 24

JAKARTA -- A 6.1-magnitude earthquake rocked off Indonesia's Gorontalo province earlier Tuesday without triggering large waves, the country's meteorology, climatology and geophysics agency said.

The tremors occurred at 02:51 a.m. Jakarta time Tuesday (1951 GMT Monday) with its epicenter 77 km southwest of Gorontalo city at a depth of 132 km beneath the seabed, the agency reported. (Indonesia-Earthquake)

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