Indonesia issues tsunami warning after big Sumatra quake


  • World
  • Wednesday, 02 Mar 2016

JAKARTA (Reuters) - Indonesia issued a tsunami warning for West Sumatra, North Sumatra and Aceh after a powerful and shallow earthquake of magnitude 7.9 struck off the west coast of the Indonesian island of Sumatra on Wednesday, the National Meteorolgical Agency said.

(Reporting by Randy Fabi; Editing by Nick Macfie)

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