BENGKULU (Antara): An earthquake measuring 5.0 on the Richter scale jolted Bengkulu on Friday at around 09:17 a.m. local time.
The epicenter of the moderate earthquake was at 5.87 degrees southern latitude and 104.46 degrees eastern longitude, around 95 km southeast of Krui, West Lampung, at a depth of 77 km, Puji, a staff member of the Jakarta Meteorological and Geophysics Agency said in Jakarta on Friday.
There were no reports of casualties or damages in the disaster.
Bengkulu Province, located in the western coastal area of Sumatra Island, is prone to earthquakes, In June 2004, a tectonic earthquake measuring 7.3 on the Richter scale devastated Bengkulu and killed 94 people as well as injured hundreds of others.
The province suffered a material loss of Rp 400billion (US$44 million) due to the disaster
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