An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 6.3 rattled the western coast of Sumatra on Friday, causing frightened residents to flee their homes.
There were no reports of damage or casualties in Bengkulu province, about 370 miles west of the capital, Jakarta.
The jolt -- in the same area shaken by an 8.4 quake in September that killed 25 people -- did not trigger a tsunami, Indonesia's Meteorological and Geophysics Agency said.
The U.S. Geological Survey put Friday's tremor at a magnitude of 5.9.
The shaking sent residents running out of their houses in panic, a local witness told El-Shinta radio.
Indonesia, which straddles a series of active fault lines, is prone to seismic and volcanic activity.
A giant earthquake along the same coast spawned the Asian tsunami that killed more than 230,000 people in December 2004.
On December 15 last year, a tremor struck with a preliminary magnitude of 7.1 at a depth of about 60 miles in Maluku province, about 1,700 miles east of the capital Jakarta. It caused no major damage or injuries.
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