Magnitude 6.0 earthquake strikes off Indonesia

San Francisco, Aug 11: A strong 6.0 magnitude earthquake struck off the coast of Indonesia early today, according to preliminary reports from the US Geological Survey.

The quake hit at 3:54 a.m. local time about 364 km (226 miles) off Banda Aceh, the USGS said, and was at a depth of 10 kms.

Dailin Wang, an oceanographer at the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center in Hawaii, said the quake -- which his center measured at a magnitude of 6.3 -- was not large enough to pose a danger of a tsunami.

Indonesia's Aceh province was badly damaged by a tsunami in December 2004 in which about 170,000 died.

Reuters