The Indonesian Seismic Agency said on the morning of July 27, a 6.1-magnitude earthquake rocked the west coast of Sumatra. The earthquake occurred at 6:10 (local time), the epicenter at a depth of 57km under the Indian Ocean. There is no information about casualties and damage yet.
Before that, on the afternoon of July 26, Papua island in eastern Indonesia was hit by an earthquake of 5.5 Richter scale with an epicenter at a depth of 70km.
On July 27, in the island nation of Vanuatu (southwest of the Pacific), there was also a magnitude 5.7 earthquake that shook buildings and caused confusion among the people.
The American Seismic Research Agency said the heart of the earthquake was located 67km west of Port Vila and at a depth of 51km. According to witnesses, earthquakes occur at 10g and last for about 10 seconds. Vanuatu, a country with a population of only 215,000, suffered two earthquakes in June, of which the June 2 earthquake measured 6.5 on the Richter scale. Indonesia and Vanuatu were both on the ' fire belt '. 'The Pacific Ocean and the intersection of continental plains often cause earthquakes and volcanic eruptions.
The truck is about to fall on the Chediguan Bridge in Wenchuan District, Sichuan Province.Mountain rocks have destroyed this bridge, killing three people and injuring 12 people (Photo: Reuters)
* In China, long and heavy rains in the southwest of the country have killed 16 people, 13 missing and 38 injured . Sichuan Province suffered the most damage, heavy rain caused flooding, affecting about 6.9 million people, of which more than 250,000 people were evacuated.
