Aug 15 (Reuters) – A powerful earthquake struck off the coast of Indonesia early on Saturday, followed by several aftershocks, the European-Mediterranean Seismological Centre said, triggering an early tsunami warning by the country’s geophysics agency.
The EMSC recorded a quake of magnitude 7.7 around 4:58 a.m. local time (2158 GMT) at a depth of 35 km (21.75 miles), followed by at least three aftershocks.
Indonesia’s geophysics agency BMKG issued an early tsunami warning for some regions in the country.
Separately, Australia’s tsunami warning centre said the undersea earthquake will have “no tsunami threat to the Australian mainland, islands or territories”.
(Reporting by Carlos Méndez and Mrinmay Dey in Mexico City; Editing by Mark Porter and Lisa Shumaker)
