A shallow earthquake measuring 5.6 Richter scale rocked Central Sulawesi, in eastern parts of Indonesia, on Saturday morning, the Meteorology and Geophysics Agency said in Jakarta.

According to China's Xinhua news agency, the agency said there is no initial report of damage or casualty reported.

Seismic movement 10km depth

The quake struck at 07:14 a.m. Jakarta time (0014 GMT) with epicentre at 26 km southwest Tolitoli of Central Sulawesi and at 10 km in depth, the agency said.

Indonesia has just recovered from the impact of the two major quakes with magnitudes of 7.3 and 7.6 in West Java and West Sumatra recently, that killed more than 1,000 people.

The archipelago country sits on a vulnerable quake-hit area, where two continental plates, stretching from Western hemisphere to Japan, meet that often cause seismic and volcanic movements.

- Bernama