A powerful earthquake struck Indonesia’s Sumatra island today. The tremor, reported to be of 6.6 magnitude on the Richter scale, occurred a few hours ago.
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According to the National Centre for Seismology, the tremor was recorded at 10.26 am. The earthquake’s epicentre was located 10 km below the ground. It was about 515 km south-southeast of Campbell Bay in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, 606 km west of Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, and over 1,000 km south-southeast of Port Blair in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands.
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Analysis of the intensity underway
Generally, earthquakes of this magnitude are capable of triggering tsunami and the analysis for the same is underway
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