East Flores Deep Sea Earthquake a `Rare` Phenomenon

TEMPO.CO, Bandung - The earthquake that struck East Flores on the early hours of Wednesday, August 24, 2016, is considered a deep-focus earthquake - a rarely encountered phenomenon as the epicentre of the earthquake is located at a depth of 537 kilometres.

"There are a lot of questions that remain unanswered to this day about what causes the phenomenon and its' impact," said the Head of Earthquake and Tsunami Mitigation for the Meterology, Climatology, and Geophysics Agency (BMKG), Daryono on Wednesday, August 24, 2016

source: http://en.tempo.co/read/news/2016/08/24/206798453/East-Flores-Deep-Sea-Earthquake-a-Rare-Phenomenon