A 6.9 magnitude earthquake shakes the Indonesian island of Sumatra

A magnitude 6.9 earthquake struck the southwest of the Indonesian island of Sumatraone of the most populated in the country, without the authorities initially reporting damage or victims.

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The United States Geological Survey, which records global seismic activity, recorded the earthquake at 8:37 p.m. (+7 GMT) and located the hypocenter 10 kilometers deep and the epicenter 212 kilometers southeast of the town of Bukittinggi, which has around 300,000 inhabitants.

Indonesia It sits on the so-called Pacific Ring of Fire, an area of ​​great seismic and volcanic activity in which some 7,000 earthquakes are recorded each year, most of them moderate.

In 2004, a strong earthquake in the north of the Indonesian island of Sumatra generated a tsunami that caused more than 226,000 deaths in a dozen nations bordering the Indian Ocean.

Source: Elcomercio

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