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    A 5.2 magnitude earthquake struck near Jayapura, Indonesia on February 9, 2023, killing at least four people and damaging several buildings. The quake occurred at the boundary between the Indo-Australian and Pacific tectonic plates, which converge along Indonesia's eastern island of Papua as part of the circum-Pacific seismic "Ring of Fire".

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    A 5.2 magnitude earthquake struck near Jayapura, Indonesia on February 9, 2023, killing at least four people and damaging several buildings. The quake occurred at the boundary between the Indo-Australian and Pacific tectonic plates, which converge along Indonesia's eastern island of Papua as part of the circum-Pacific seismic "Ring of Fire".

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    A 5.2 magnitude earthquake struck near Jayapura, Indonesia on February 9, 2023, killing at least four people and damaging several buildings. The quake occurred at the boundary between the Indo-Australian and Pacific tectonic plates, which converge along Indonesia's eastern island of Papua as part of the circum-Pacific seismic "Ring of Fire".

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    1.

    Find a newspaper article about a recent earthquake or volcano


    JAKARTA (Reuters) - At least four people were killed and several buildings damaged after a
    shallow, 5.2-magnitude earthquake struck Indonesia's easternmost region of Papua on
    Thursday, 9.02.2023,, the country's disaster agency said.

    The quake's epicenter was one kilometer from Jayapura, the capital city of Papua province,
    at a depth of 10km, according to Indonesia's geophysics agency (BMKG).

    2. Name the plate boundary where this happened


    The border of these two plates is composed of a mix of transform and convergent
    boundaries along the Eastern edge of the Australian plate, with both divergent and
    convergent boundaries along the Northern edge.

    3. What major tectonic plates are involved?


    Indo-Australian plate and the Pacific plate
    → Ring of Fire

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