Bandarlampung (Antara) - An earthquake measuring 5.0 on the Richter scale jolted West Lampung District, Lampung Province, on Sunday at 3.58 am local time. The quake's epicenter was located at 6.39 degrees southern latitude and 103.98 degrees eastern longitude, around 138 km southwest of West Lampung, and at a depth of 10 km, Yuharman of the Kotabumi geophysics agency, said on Sunday. The earthquake did not have potential to trigger a tsunami. West Lampung is prone to earthquake. As a country located in the Pacific Ocean`s "Ring of Fire" of volcanoes and earthquakes, Indonesia is one of the world`s most disaster-prone countries. One of the worst disasters hitting Indonesia in modern history was a very powerful earthquake that triggered a subsequent deadly tsunami which devastated Aceh Province and Nias Island (North Sumatra Province) on December 26, 2004. The natural disasters killed around 200,000 people and rendered about one million others homeless. (*)


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