Strong earthquake strikes Sumatra island, Indonesia

An earthquake with a magnitude of 6.2 jolted an area near the western coast of Indonesia's Sumatra island on Friday, at a depth of 10 km, the Indonesian Meteorological, Climatology and Geophysics Agency said.

The agency said in a message on Twitter that the epicenter of the earthquake was on land and there was no possibility of a tsunami.

Perched atop the seismically active Pacific Ring of Fire, Indonesia often experiences deadly earthquakes and tsunamis.

In September 2018, a 7.5-magnitude earthquake and powerful tsunami devastated Palu, on the island of Sulawesi West Maluku, killing more than 4,000 people.

In 2004, an earthquake off Sumatra island triggered a tsunami across the Indian Ocean that killed 226,000 people in 14 countries, more than 120,000 of them in Indonesia. Tsunami.

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