An earthquake with a magnitude of 8.9 struck Aceh province triggering a tsunami warning across the Indian Ocean region.
“Nepal, including Kathmandu, felt the minor tremor of the earthquake in Indonesia,” Bharat Koirala, a seismologist at the National Seismology Center in Kathmandu confirmed.
Koirala added that the intensity of the tremor was little more in eastern Nepal. [break]
Meanwhile, the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center reportedly said it was not yet known whether a tsunami had been generated, but said authorities should ‘take appropriate action’.
The Indian Ocean tsunami of 2004 killed 170,000 people in Aceh.
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