Magnitude 6.3 Earthquake Strikes Sumatra; Nine Killed
(Update1)
By Michele Batchelor and Karima Anjani
March 6 (Bloomberg) -- A magnitude 6.3 earthquake struck west
Sumatra in Indonesia, killing at least nine people, and shaking
buildings in Singapore, forcing evacuations. A second quake of
magnitude 6.1 hit the same area two hours later.
The quake occurred at 10:49 a.m. local time 49 kilometers (30
miles) north-northeast of Padang city in west Sumatra and 424
kilometers southwest of Singapore, the U.S. Geological Survey said.
There was no tsunami warning issued.
``Two children were killed and some were injured,'' Rustam. S.
Pakaya, head of crisis management at the Indonesian Health
Ministry, said in a telephone interview. The children were from
Batusangkar, 16 kilometers west of the epicenter. At least nine
people were killed and some houses and shops collapsed, El Shinta
radio reported.
