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Four moderate earthquakes hit Indonesia's Aceh

FOUR moderate earthquakes measuring 5.0-5.9 on the Richter scale rocked Indonesia's Aceh province yesterday, with the strongest one being felt at Sinabang city that lies near the epicenter, the Meteorology, Climatology and Geophysics said in a statement.

The earthquakes were centered at 14-265 kilometers southwest and west of Sinabang city and at depth of 14-23 kilometers under seabed.

According to the agency, the earthquakes were occurred at 18:23 local time (1123 GMT), 18:36 (1136 GMT), 18:45 (1145) and 23:26 (1626 GMT).

The agency did not release a tsunami warning.



 

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