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HONG KONG - A strong earthquake hit off the coast of the Indonesia's Sumatra island early today in an area south of where the huge, tsunami-generating quake struck nearly two months ago, Hong Kong seismologists said, but no damage or casualties were reported.
The magnitude 6.0 quake was centered in seas 120 miles northwest of Padang. That city is about 560 miles southeast of Banda Aceh - the provincial capital closest to the epicenter of the Dec. 26 magnitude-9.0 temblor that triggered the Indian Ocean tsunami.
The quake was recorded in Hong Kong at 1:13 a.m., the Hong Kong Observatory said in a statement.
The quake caused no damage nor casualties, Sumarso, chief of the local Meteorology and Geophysics Agency, said in the nearby city of Padang Panjang.
