Strong earthquake rocks Indonesian provinces
A strong earthquake rocked parts of Indonesia’s North and West Sumatra provinces today, an official said.
There were no immediate reports of a tsunami.
The 6.1 earthquake that struck at 6.16pm local time (12.16pm Irish time) was centred under the Indian Ocean, about 56 miles north-west of Gunung Sitoli, the main town on Nias island, said Lukito, of the Meteorology and Geophysics Agency.
“It strongly jolted Gunung Sitoli, but so far, we have not yet received any report of damage or casualties,” Lukito said.
Indonesia, the world’s largest archipelago, is prone to seismic upheaval due to its location on the so-called Pacific Ring of Fire, an arc of volcanos and fault lines encircling the Pacific Basin.
