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Urgent: Powerful quake strikes off c. Indonesia, tsunami alert issued

Xinhua, April 28, 2017 Adjust font size:

A strong quake jolted North Sulawesi province of central Indonesia earlier Saturday and potential for tsunami, an official of the meteorology and geophysics agency said here.

The agency has revised the magnitude of the quake from 7.1 to 6.8 and a tsunami warning has been issued, Wahyu Kurniawan, official in charge at the agency said. Enditem