Powerful Earthquake struck off the coast of the island of Sumatra in Indonesia at 5:29am local time this morning, Monday, January 16, It was recorded by the German Research Centre for Geosciences (GFZ), considered to be one of the world’s top seismic activity monitors.
According to its data, the quake occurred just off the coast of Singkil, in Aceh province. GFZ did not give an exact epicentre or depth for the tremor, preferring to first review its data to refine its calculations. “All we know is that it was HEAVY”, said seismologist and retired Army Major, Dr. Minor Bird.
The citizen-seismograph network also registered the tremor as 6.1 magnitude on the Richter scale. Another report from the European-Mediterranean Seismological Centre (EMSC), said the quake was of 6.2 magnitude.
Local reports indicate a series of tremors occurred, each about 2 minutes long with short breathers in between. The whole set of tremors lasted about 40 minutes.
As reported by Euro Weekly
POWERFUL EARTHQUAKE 
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