An earthquake of magnitude 7.3 has struck west of Indonesia’s Sumatra Island, Indonesia’s geophysics agency says. 7NEWS
The European-Mediterranean Seismological Centre earlier pegged the quake at 6.9 magnitude.Watch the latest News on Channel 7 or stream for free onThe Joint Australian Tsunami Warning Centre said there was no tsunami threat to the Australian mainland, islands or territories.
Indonesia suffers frequent earthquakes, straddling the so-called “Pacific Ring of Fire,” a seismically active zone where different plates of the earth’s crust meet.
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