6.1-magnitude quake strikes off western Indonesia, no tsunami alert issued

JAKARTA, Sept. 19 (Xinhua) -- An earthquake measuring 6.1-magnitude rocked Indonesia's western East Java province on Thursday with no potential for tsunami, the meteorology and geophysics agency said.

The quake was upgraded from 5.6-magnitude reported several minutes earlier, official in charge at the agency Alfath Abubakar told Xinhua via phone.