6.6-magnitude quake hits Indonesia: USGS
JAKARTA: A 6.6-magnitude earthquake hit the northern part of Indonesia's Sumatra island on Tuesday, the US Geological Survey said.
The quake struck at 12:55 am (1755 GMT on Monday) at a depth of 110 kilometres (70 miles), USGS said, with its epicentre around 400 kilometres (250 miles) southeast of Banda Aceh.
The Hawaii-based Pacific Tsunami Warning Center said the quake was too far inland to generate a tsunami.
Indonesia sits on the Pacific "Ring of Fire", where the collision of continental plates causes high seismic activity, and Sumatra is particularly prone to earthquakes.
Aceh was devastated when a 9.1-magnitude quake off Sumatra in December 2004 triggered a huge tsunami which killed more than 220,000 people around the Indian Ocean.
USGS initially gave a magnitude of 6.5 for Tuesday's quake.
Copyright AFP (Agence France-Presse), 2011
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