KUALA LUMPUR, 12 Mei- Jabatan Meteorologi Malaysia (METMalaysia) mengesahkan tiada ancaman tsunami kepada Malaysia susulan gempa bumi sederhana yang berlaku di Xizang awal pagi ini.

Gempa berukuran 5.4 magnitud itu direkodkan pada pukul 5.11 pagi dan berpusat di koordinat 28.9 darjah utara serta 87.6 darjah timur dengan kedalaman 10 kilometer.

MetMalaysia memaklumkan lokasi kejadian terletak kira-kira 384 kilometer di utara Dinajpur, Bangladesh.

Orang ramai dinasihatkan merujuk maklumat rasmi melalui laman web METMalaysia atau aplikasi mudah alih myCuaca bagi sebarang perkembangan terkini.

GEORGE TOWN — Tremors from a moderate earthquake that struck North Sumatra, Indonesia today were also felt by residents living in Penang, especially in areas near the sea.

Penang Fire and Rescue Department (JBPM) director Mohamad Shoki Hamzah said his department had received two reports of tremors believed to be a result of the earthquake that occurred in the neighbouring country.

“So far, the fire department has received two phone calls from members of the public in a residential area in Block 1, Taman Selatan in Jelutong and a hotel in George Town at 5.15 pm this evening reporting tremors in their residential area.

“The fire department was sent to the location to conduct further inspections and the operations commander reported that the locations were safe and there were no structural damages to the buildings involved,” he said when contacted by Bernama, today.

He said the fire department was also monitoring from time to time to ensure that no premises or buildings were affected by the tremors caused by the earthquake.

Meanwhile, a resident of Apartment Desa Baiduri in Farlim, here, Fatin Syafiqah Ahmad Rozi, 32, said she and her family who live on the 10th floor also felt the tremors for several minutes but thought she had a headache.

However, she said the tremors were also felt by other family members before her neighbour who also felt the same incident came to her house to ask if there was anything wrong like tremors or there was a construction project in their residential area.

“The tremors were felt twice but only for a few minutes, we didn’t know yet that there was an earthquake in Indonesia and the neighbours had called us to go down because we were afraid something would happen, at that time we saw several other residents coming out of their houses,” she said.

A resident of an apartment in Jelutong, Nur Hafizah Mustafa, 42, said the tremors were quite strong so that she could see several items in the house moving and she immediately went into the room to see her seven-year-old son sleeping.

“Then I came out of the house and saw several neighbours asking each other what happened as everyone was worried that something would happen before they knew that there was an earthquake in Indonesia,” said Nur Hafizah who lives on the 15th floor of the apartment.

Earlier, the Malaysian Meteorological Department (MetMalaysia) in a statement announced that a moderate earthquake measuring 5.9 on the Richter scale hit North Sumatra, Indonesia at 4.57 pm this afternoon.

The tremors were also felt in most areas on the West Coast of Peninsular Malaysia, but there was no tsunami threat to the country. — BERNAMA

LHASA (Xinhua): A 5.5-magnitude earthquake struck Lhaze County in Xigaze City in southwest China's Xizang Autonomous Region at 5:11 a.m. Monday, with no casualties reported, according to local authorities.

The epicentre was monitored at 28.91 degrees north latitude and 87.54 degrees east longitude. The earthquake struck at a depth of 10 km, according to the China Earthquake Networks Center.

Local authorities in the county told Xinhua that the quake was strongly felt, waking some residents. Following the earthquake, the county promptly initiated response measures, with its townships assessing the impact. 

Fire and rescue teams from the county have been dispatched to the epicenter. - Xinhua

BEIJING: Gempa bumi berukuran 5.5 skala Richter menggegarkan wilayah Tibet awal hari ini, menurut Pentadbiran Gempa Bumi China (CEA).

Menurut laporan Reuters, gempa bumi melanda Shigatse pada pukul 5.11 pagi waktu tempatan, pada kedalaman 10 kilometer (km).

CEA berkata, pihak berkuasa menghantar perkhidmatan respons kecemasan dan tiada kemalangan jiwa dilaporkan setakat ini.

Januari lalu, lebih 120 maut dalam gempa bumi berukuran 6.8 skala Richter yang melanda daerah Tingri Tibet, sekitar 240 km dari Shingatse.