Two powerful earthquakes recorded in Indonesia. There is a threat of a tsunami

Indonesia has recorded two earthquakes of magnitude 6.1 and 5.8, as a result of which there is a threat of a tsunami, according to the European Mediterranean Seismological Center (EMSC). Tremors occurred in the Batu archipelago.

According to the seismological center, the source of the earthquake with a magnitude of 6.1 was at a depth of 43 km. Earlier, EMSC recorded an earthquake of magnitude 5.8 at a depth of 40 km.

The first tremors occurred 202 kilometers west of Padang (population 840 thousand people), the second - 177 kilometers west of Pariaman (92 thousand people).

The Batu Archipelago is located in the Indian Ocean.. It consists of 48 islands, the largest of which is Tanahbala..

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Earlier it was reported that most of Pakistan and Afghanistan were shaken by an earthquake of magnitude 6.5.. Then at least two people died: a girl who died in a stampede, and a man on whom the roof collapsed. More than 100 people were taken to hospitals in the Swat Valley region in Pakistan's northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province in shock.