A large earthquake, measured by the US Geological Survey as having a magnitude of 7.2, struck near Sumatra , Indonesia earlier today. The epicentre was 215 kilometres (130 miles ) south-southeast of Banda Aceh , Sumatra, and 630 kilometres (390 miles) west of Malaysia's capital Kuala Lumpur, at a depth of 45 kilometres (28 miles), the USGS reports. The tremors started at about 13.00 local time (05.59 UTC). A local tsunami alert was made by the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center, but rescinded about an hour and a half later. The epicentre of the temblor is near that of 2004's magnitude 9.2 earthquake, which generated a large tsunami and killed around 170,000 people. Indonesia is on a very tectonically active part of the world, the Ring of Fire , and experiences earthquakes frequently.
A large earthquake, measured by the US Geological Survey as having a magnitude of 7.2, struck near , Indonesia earlier today. The epicentre was 215 (130 ) south-southeast of , Sumatra, and 630 kilometres (390 miles) west of Malaysia's capital Kuala Lumpur, at a depth of 45 kilometres (28 miles), the USGS reports. The tremors started at about 13.00 local time (05.59 UTC). A local tsunami alert was made by the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center, but rescinded about an hour and a half later. The epicentre of the temblor is near that of 2004's magnitude 9.2 earthquake, which generated a large tsunami and killed around 170,000 people. Indonesia is on a very tectonically active part of the world, the , and experiences earthquakes frequently.
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