Last Updated: April 25, 2023, 03:53 IST
The quake triggered a tsunami warning, the country’s Meteorological Department added. (Image: Shutterstock)
The European-Mediterranean Seismological Centre (EMSC) earlier pegged the quake at 6.9 magnitude
An earthquake of magnitude 7.4 struck west of Indonesia’s Sumatra Island on Tuesday, Indonesia’s geophysics agency (BMKG) said.
The European-Mediterranean Seismological Centre (EMSC) earlier pegged the quake at 6.9 magnitude.
The quake was at a depth of 20 km (12.43 miles), EMSC said.
The quake triggered a tsunami warning, the country’s Meteorological Department added.
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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