Batam (ANTARA News) - People in Singapore also felt the 6.7 earthquake centered in Indonesia`s West Sumatra province on Thursday, a report said.
The quake whose epicenter was located 127 km southwest of Painan in West Sumatra and 76 km below the sea level also shook Singapore`s residential areas such as St. George`s Lane, Marine Parade, Katong, Geylang Bahru, Beach Road, Punggol and Taman Jurong, Channel News Asia reported.
With its epicenter at 2.19 degrees southern latitude and 99.79 degrees eastern longitude, the quake rocked West Sumatra at 3.30 p.m. and Singapore at 4.30 p.m. The city state lay 670 km from the quake`s epicenter, the report said.
This year, people in Singapore had felt at least three quakes happening in Indonesia, namely the one in West Sumatra on March 6, that in Bengkulu on September 12, and that in West Sumatra on Sept 20.
Meanwhile, the 6.7 magnitude-quake in West Sumatra was felt by people living the province`s coastal areas for 11 minutes.
According to Adjat Sudrajat, coordinator of Bengkulu`s Meteorology and Geophysics Agency (BMG), the West Sumatra temblor was also felt by people in Bengkulu. It was one of the aftershocks that continued jolting Bengkulu, Jambi and West Sumatra following an earthquake centered in Bengkulu and measuring 7.9 on the Richter scale on Wednesday last week.
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