Friday, September 10, 2010

Quake strikes off Sumatra, Indonesia

JAKARTA, Sept. 7 (Xinhua) -- A shallow moderate earthquake with magnitude of 5.9 rocked Sumatra Island of Indonesia on Tuesday morning, the Meteorology and Geophysics Agency said here.

The quake struck at 07:57 a.m. Jakarta time (0057 GMT) with epicenter at 211 km southwest Krui of Lampung province and with the depth at 10 km under sea bed, the agency said.

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