Indonesia’s Sumatra checks for damage from 6.3 magnitude earthquake
(Reuters) -Indonesia’s catastrophe company is assessing the influence of a robust earthquake that hit off the southern coast of Sumatra island late on Tuesday, it stated in an announcement, noting there had been no stories of injury or casualties by close to midnight.
The 6.3 magnitude quake struck at 21:31 native time (1431 GMT), the nation’s meteorology and geophysics company (BMKG) stated, with its epicentre 80 km (50 miles) south of the city of Manna in Bengkulu province, at a depth of 52 km.
Manna is about 600 km (375 miles) northwest of the capital Jakarta.
The tremor was felt for two to six seconds by residents alongside the southern shoreline of Sumatra, prompting some to expire of their houses, catastrophe company BNPB stated in an announcement.
“It was fairly robust,” a Bengkulu company official, Septi, stated.
Indonesia straddles the so-called “Pacific Ring of Fireplace”, a seismically energetic zone, the place completely different plates on the earth’s crust meet and create a lot of earthquakes and volcanoes.
In February, a magnitude 6.1 earthquake killed greater than 10 individuals when it struck inland close to the western coast of Sumatra.
(Reporting by Anirudh Saligrama in Bengaluru; Fransiska Nangoy and Gayatri Suroyo in Jakarta; Enhancing by Alex Richardson and Richard Pullin)
