The quake was “felt in Medan,” about 120 kilometers north-northeast of the epicenter, the Euro-Mediterranean Seismological Center reported.
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The Indonesian Agency for Meteorology, Climatology and Geophysics (BMKG) assigned the quake a magnitude of more than 6.2.
Indonesia is subject to frequent seismic and volcanic activity due to its location on the Pacific “Ring of Fire” where tectonic plates collide.
On November 21, a magnitude 5.6 earthquake that struck the densely populated West Java province on the main island of Java killed 602 people.
Recently, on January 10, a 7.6 magnitude earthquake struck off Indonesia and East Timor, also deep in the ocean. According to the Indonesian Disaster Management Board (BNPB), one person was injured and fifteen houses and two schools were destroyed.
Indonesia’s deadliest earthquake, which struck off Sumatra on December 26, 2004, killed more than 230,000 people as far away as Sri Lanka, India and Thailand and caused gigantic waves up to 30 meters high on the Banda Aceh coast. North Sumatra. It was magnitude 9.1.