An earthquake measuring 5.2 on the Richter Scale jolted Meulaboh, Nangro Aceh Darussalam (NAD) Province, Monday, at 11 pm local time, according to ANTARA. The temblor's epicenter was located at 3.14 degrees northern latitude and 93.35 degrees eastern longitude, around 327 km southwest of Meulaboh at a depth of about 10 km below sea level, according to information from the Bandarlampung meteorological, climatological, and geophysics office (BMKG). The earthquake did not have potential to trigger a tsunami, the BMKG said. Indonesia, the world's largest archipelago, sits on the Pacific "Ring of Fire," the edge of a tectonic plate prone to seismic upheavals.
