(MENAFN- Trend News Agency)
An earthquake of magnitude 5.8 struck Indonesia's Northern
Sumatra province on Saturday, killing one, said the country's
meteorology and geophysics agency, BMKG, reports citing .
Nine people were injured in the quake, which was felt in a few
towns and prompted people to flee their homes, BMKG chief Dwikorita
Karnawati told reporters.
Five houses were damaged and 53 aftershocks were recorded after
the quake was first felt at 2:28 a.m., she said, adding there was
no tsunami risk but warning of potential landslides in hilly
areas.
Indonesia suffers frequent earthquakes, straddling the 'Pacific
Ring of Fire', a seismically active zone where different plates of
the earth's crust meet.
The fault along Sumatra island can be particularly active and
dangerous. In 2004, a massive 9.1 magnitude quake and a tsunami off
the northern tip of Sumatra killed 226,000 people in Indonesia, Sri
Lanka, India, Thailand and nine other countries.
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