Large cracks appear on Tawau road following tremors


  • Nation
  • Friday, 22 Dec 2017

One of the large cracks that appeared on the road between Tawau town and the airport following a magnitude 3.7 tremor in the Sabah east coast district early Friday. Pix courtesy of Datuk Pang Yuk Ming.

KOTA KINABALU: Large cracks have appeared on the road between Tawau and it's airport following a 3.7 magnitude tremor in the east coast district early Friday (Dec 22).

Assistant Minister of Tourism, Culture and Environment Datuk Pang Yuk Ming said the cracks appeared at two spots some 8m apart, about 18 kilometres from central Tawau.

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