A 6.2-magnitude earthquake struck off the coast of Indonesia’s Sumatra Island Wednesday, the US Geological Survey mentioned, but there was no tsunami warning or instant reports of harm.
The robust offshore quake hit about 217 kilometres south-southwest of the city of Bengkulu at a shallow depth of 10 kilometres at 7:52 pm nearby time (1252 GMT).
Shallow quakes have a tendency to lead to more harm than deep ones.
The Southeast Asian archipelago experiences frequent seismic and volcanic activity due to its position on the Pacific “Ring of Fire”, exactly where tectonic plates collide.
More than one hundred persons had been killed when a 6.2-magnitude quake rocked the modest city of Mamuju on Sulawesi island final month.
In 2018, a 7.5-magnitude quake and subsequent tsunami on Sulawesi island left more than 4,300 persons dead or missing.
A devastating 9.1-magnitude quake struck off the coast of Sumatra in 2004, triggering a tsunami that killed 220,000 all through the area, like about 170,000 in Indonesia — one of the deadliest organic disasters in recorded history.
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