REPUBLIKA.CO.ID, BANDARLAMPUNG - A 5.3 Richter scale earthquake struck the southeast Mentawai Island, West Sumatra, on Saturday morning. Meteorology, Climatology, and Geophysics Department explained that the earthquake happened at 02.24.17 local time in 3.33 degree of South Latitude and 100.29 degree of East Longitude.

The center of the earthquake was 143 kilometer to southeast of Mentawai Island and the epicentrum was 34 kilometer. The department has not detected the potency of tsunami. 

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