By Xinhua
Jakarta : A powerful earthquake with magnitude of 6.7 rocked West Nusa Tenggara province in eastern part of Indonesia Sunday evening prompting a tsunami warning in the region, said the Meteorology and Geophysics Agency.
“We have issued a tsunami warning,” Ali Imron, an official of the agency, told Xinhua.
There has been no report of damage or casualties, he said.
The quake struck at 11.02 p.m. local time with epicentre 50 km southwest Raba town of the province and at a depth of 50 km, he said.
The intensity of the quake was felt at 3 MMI (modified metrically intensity) at Denpasar, the capital city of Indonesia’s tourist island of Bali province, said Imron.
Early Sunday morning, a powerful earthquake struck the western coast off Indonesia’s Sumatra island, but there were no immediate reports of casualties and structural damages.
According to the country’s meteorological agency, the quake measuring 6.2 on the Richter scale rocked Mukomuko district in Bengkulu province on Sumatra island at 9.52 a.m. local time.
The quake’s epicentre lies 2.82 degrees South Latitude and 101.04 degrees East Longitude, 55 km under the sea bed and 28 km southwest of Mukomuko district, said the agency, adding that there was no risk of a tsunami.
Indonesia lies on a vulnerable zone called “the Pacific Ring of Fire” where two continental plates, stretching from the Western Hemisphere through Japan and Southeast Asia, meet that cause frequent volcanic movements.