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Ambon

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Am·bon  (ämbôn) also Am·boi·na (m-boin)
A town of eastern Indonesia on the island of Ambon in the Moluccas near Ceram. Settled by the Portuguese in the 16th century, it was also the site of an English settlement that was destroyed by the Dutch in 1623.
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The quake was not felt in Ambon but it was felt strongly in Manokwari in west Papua.
Major quake strikes off Indonesia: seismologists by AFP / AFP Global Edition
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