RANAU: The Lahad Datu district on Sabah's east coast should be prepared in the eventuality an earthquake hits, said Malaysian Meteorological Department director general Datuk Che Gayah Ismail.
She said the last major earthquake in Lahad Datu in happened in 1976 with a magnitude of 5.8, she said in a briefing for Science, Technology and Innovation Minister Datuk Ewon Ebin here.
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