[UPDATED] MetMalaysia: 5.1-magnitude earthquake strikes Java, no tsunami threat to Malaysia

KUALA LUMPUR: An earthquake measuring 5.1 magnitude struck Java, Indonesia, at 2.55pm yesterday.

The Malaysian Meteorological Department (MetMalaysia) said the earthquake did not pose a tsunami threat to Malaysia."The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10km, at coordinates 7.9° South latitude and 105.



9° East."It was also located 154km southwest of Sukabumi, Indonesia," it said in a statement.Last month, an earthquake measuring 5.

2 on the Richter scale struck Indonesia's western Aceh province, with its epicentre located 16km northeast of the provincial capital Banda Aceh, at a depth of 12 kilometres below the earth's surface.Indonesia is prone to earthquakes, as the archipelagic nation lies within a quake-prone zone known as the 'Pacific Ring of Fire'.© New Straits Times Press (M) Bhd.