A 7.1-magnitude earthquake hits Indonesia’s Sumatra island on Tuesday, forcing them to flee to higher ground before an hours-long tsunami warning was lifted.
The epicenter of the earthquake, which occurred at three o'clock local time (Monday at 20:00 GMT), was located near the coast of the Mentawi Islands, at a depth of 15.5 kilometers, according to the US agency .
The Indonesian Geophysics Agency issued a warning of a possible tsunami and kept it for about two hours, after initially announcing that the earthquake was greater.
The most fatal earthquake occurred in Indonesia on December 26, 2004 off the coast of Sumatra and resulted in more than 230,000 deaths in Sri Lanka, India and even Thailand
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