Strong Quake Hits Indonesia's Sumatra Island
Komfie Manalo - All Headline News Foreign Correspondent Jakarta, Indonesia (AHN) - A powerful quake measuring 6.1 magnitude shook Indonesia's North and West Sumatra province. There were no immediate reports of a tsunami. Indonesia's Meteorology and Geophysics Agency said the jolt occurred at 7:16 EDT Wednesday. Lukito, an official at the agency said the epicenter of the quake is about 60 miles northwest off Nias island off the Indian Ocean. The tremor was felt in Gunug Sitoli, the main town on Nias island, in the North Sumatra towns of Porsea and Sibolga and in Padang, the capital of West Sumatra. He told AP, "It strongly jolted Gunung Sitoli, but so far, we have not yet received any report of damage or casualties." Last week, some 600 Indonesians were killed by a tsunami triggered by an undersea earthquake. Indonesia, the world's largest archipelago, sits on the so-called Pacific "Ring of Fire," an arc of volcanoes and fault lines encircling the Pacific Ocean.
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