An earthquake struck parts of western Indonesia on Monday, but authorities had no immediate reports of casualties or serious damage.
The epicenter of the 6.2-magnitude quake was located 40 kilometers off the coast and southeast of Singkil, in Aceh province, while the hypocenter was recorded at a depth of 37 kilometers, according to the United States Geological Survey. USGS.
The Indonesian Meteorology, Climatology and Geophysics Agency has not issued any tsunami warnings.
Indonesia, an archipelago with more than 270 million inhabitants, frequently experiences earthquakes and volcanic eruptions as it is located on the so-called “ring of fire” in the Pacific, an area of great seismic and volcanic activity, where thousands of earthquakes occur. They are registered annually, mostly of weak to moderate magnitude, and with about 120 active volcanoes.
On November 21, at least 331 people were killed and some 600 injured after a magnitude 5.6 earthquake struck the city of Cianjur, West Java.
In 2018, around 4,340 people died in an earthquake and tsunami in Sulawesi, an Indonesian island east of Borneo.
In 2004, an earthquake in the Indian Ocean triggered a tsunami that killed more than 230,000 people in several countries in the region, most of them in the Indonesian province of Aceh.
Source: TSF
