, although residents who had fled to high ground fearing a tsunami had started returning, the disaster agency said on Friday .
The quake in the Moluccas struck late on Thursday and had a magnitude of 7.1 with its epicentre in the sea 139km northwest of the city of Ternate, according to the US Geological Survey.A tsunami alert was lifted after almost two hours, although there have been more than 90 aftershocks since the initial quake.
The quake hit 140 kilometres northwest of the coastal town of Ternate at a depth of 45 kilometres, according to the US Geological Survey. Agus Wibowo, a spokesman for Indonesia's disaster mitigation agency , said two people sustained minor injuries in Ternate in the province of North Maluku, also known as the Moluccas, citing the local disaster mitigation agency. Six houses and two churches were also lightly damaged.
"The local disaster mitigation agency in Ternate has also said that the people who were staying away from beaches started returning to their homes this morning," he said in a statement, adding that calm had returned to the city of Bitung on Sulawesi island and in the Halmahera district in the Moluccas.
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