Indonesia’s Sumatra checks for damage from 6.3 magnitute quake

Indonesia’s disaster agency is assessing the impact of a strong earthquake that hit off the southern coast of Sumatra island late on Tuesday, it said in a statement, noting there had been no reports of damage or casualties by near midnight.
The 6.3 magnitude quake struck at 21:31 local time (1431 GMT), the country’s meteorology and geophysics agency (BMKG) said, with its epicentre 80 km (50 miles) south of the town of Manna in Bengkulu province, at a depth of 52 km.
Manna is about 600 km (375 miles) northwest of the capital Jakarta.
Disaster agency BNPB said in a statement, the tremor was felt for 2 to 6 seconds by residents along the southern coastline of Sumatra, prompting some to run out of their homes.