Dozens wounded by Sumatra earthquake

medan - Due to a relatively minor earthquake for the region with a magnitude of 5.6, around fifty people were injured in western Sumatra. At least 350 buildings have been damaged according to local...

The epicenter of the quake was at a depth of 10 kilometers, more than 385 kilometers and southeast of the city of Medan. One of the heaviest earthquakes ever recorded on the coast of Sumatra at the end of 2006. It had a force of 9.1 and claimed hundreds of thousands of human lives in a series of countries due to a tsunami. Sumatra is on the edge of tectonic plates.