Barely four days after the Sulawesi island of Indonesia was hit by a powerful 7.5 magnitude earthquake that killed 832 people, Sumba island of Indonesia was rocked by fresh tremors on Tuesday. The quake on Tuesday measured 6.0 on the Richter scale. There were no reports of any damages so far, an official said.
According to the meteorology and geophysics agency, the quake hit at 7.16 a.m. at a depth of 10 km under the seabed with its epicentre 66 km southwest Sumba Timur. It however, did not trigger any tsunami alerts.
The earthquake resulted in panic but there were no reports of damage, said spokesman of a national disaster management agency.
Indonesia sits on a vulnerable quake-stricken area called the Pacific Ring of Fire, making it prone to earthquakes.
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