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JAKARTA, Jan 1: A large earthquake struck under the sea off Indonesia's Sumatra Islands on Saturday afternoon, seismologists said.
The Hong Kong Observatory reported a "severe earthquake" at 0622GMT (1122am PST), with an estimated magnitude of 6.5 on the Richter Scale, with its epicentre 350 kilometres west of Banda Aceh.
The quake was close to the epicentre of last Sunday's earthquake, which measured 9.0 on the Richter scale and unleashed tsunamis which killed at least 125,000 people around Asia.
An AFP correspondent in Banda Aceh said no tremor was felt there on Saturday.-AFP
