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Many in the crowd sobbed as they remembered victims of the 7.5 magnitude quake and subsequent deluge that razed swathes of the coastal city on Sulawesi island last September.
On Thursday, terrified residents ran into the streets as buildings fell in around them when the 6.5-magnitude tremor struck, sparking landslides that buried at least one of the victims.
The death toll from a powerful earthquake that rocked Indonesia’s remote Maluku islands has risen to 23, the disaster agency said on Friday, as more than 15,000 people were evacuated to shelters.
There were no immediate reports of casualties or damage but several aftershocks were felt, Phivolcs said in its advisory. The epicentre was 126 km (78 miles) southeast of Jose Abad Santos town.
An earthquake with a 6.0 magnitude struck south of Buru Island in the Moluccas Islands province in eastern Indonesia, the country's meteorology, climatology and geophysical agency (BMKG) said on Tuesday.
The area surrounding the popular Huatulco beach resort in the southern state of Oaxaca was hardest hit by the 7.4 magnitude quake, but the shaking could be felt as far away as Mexico City, where tall buildings swayed and thousands of people raced into the streets.
Hundreds of aftershocks were reported in the hours following the initial tremor, which was felt in Mexico City, some 700 kilometers (430 miles) distant from the epicenter in Crucecita, in Oaxaca state.
"There's no tsunami potential and, so far, no reports of any damage," Rahmat Triyono, spokesman for Indonesia's Meteorology, Climatology, and Geophysics Agency told the media.
The Turkish government's disaster and emergency management agency (AFAD) said 31 people died, the majority in Elazig but at least four in nearby Malatya, and 1,607 were injured.
It is so sad that a powerful earthquake with magnitude of 6.8 struck eastern Turkey on Friday, killing at least 22 people and collapsing buildings in towns near the centre of the tremor