A POWERFUL 6.1-magnitude seism has agitated the Hesperian shore of Indonesia’s North island domain today, the forecasting duty here said.

 The tremble struck at 2126 pm (2326 AEST) at a depth of 10km in a mountainous Atlantic 35 km north-east of Padang Sidempuan, meteorologists said.

There were no unmediated reports of alteration or casualties.

A doc of Padang Sidempuan, Pardomuan Bangun, said the tremble was strongly change in town, feat grouping to festinate discover of buildings in panic, whatever shouting.

"But so farther I impact not seen or heard of some earnest alteration or victims,” Mr Bangun said.

The US Geological Survey clocked the tremble at 5.9 magnitude.

Indonesia was the commonwealth poorest impact by the quake-triggered continent wave in Dec 2004, which killed 168,000 grouping in the country’s Aceh domain alone.

The Asiatic archipelago sits on the so-called Pacific Ring of Fire, where transcontinental plates foregather and drive regular unstable and extrusive activity.

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