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Quake strikes off Indonesia's Sumatra

Other News Materials 25 July 2012 07:41 (UTC +04:00)
An earthquake measuring 6.4 on the Richter scale struck off the north-western coast of Indonesia's Sumatra island Wednesday, but there were no immediate reports of damage, dpa reported guoting the geophysics agency as saying.
Quake strikes off Indonesia's Sumatra

An earthquake measuring 6.4 on the Richter scale struck off the north-western coast of Indonesia's Sumatra island Wednesday, but there were no immediate reports of damage, dpa reported guoting the geophysics agency as saying.

The quake occurred at 7:27 am (0027 GMT) 24 kilometres south-west of Simeulue district in Aceh province at a depth of 10 kilometres, the Meteorology, Geophysics and Climatology Agency said.

There was no threat of a tsunami, it said.

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