Officials are still assessing the impact but there were no immediate reports of damage and casualties. "The quake was felt very strongly in Tuapejat. The quake left residents of Padang, on the west coast of Sumatra, panicking for a moment. Last year, the Indonesian archipelago was hit by an earthquake and tsunami in Palu on Sulawesi island which killed around 2,200 people. At the end of the year, an erupting volcano in the middle of the Sunda Strait between Java and Sumatra islands killed more than 400 people.

Source: The Nation Bangkok February 02, 2019 10:41 UTC