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Tsunami warning issued after earthquake hits Indonesia, killing three people
The quake struck off the western coast of Sumatra island close to Simeulue island, the US Geological Survey said in a posting on its Web site.
- Agencies
- Published: 13:07 February 20, 2008
Jakarta: A powerful earthquake measuring 7.6 on the Richter scale has struck western Indonesia on Wednesday, alarming residents and prompting a tsunami warning, official agencies and witnesses said.
Three people were reportedly killed and around 25 injured when the quake struck the off the western coast of Sumatra island close to Simeulue island, the US Geological Survey said in a posting on its Web site.
There was an immediate Tsunami warning issued, possibly because the quake was deep under the sea bed.
Several callers told local radio station Al Shinta that the quake was felt strongly on Sumatra.
A magnitude-9 quake off Sumatra's coast in 2004 triggered a tsunami that killed more than 230,000 people in a dozen countries, most of them in Indonesia.
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