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USGS says the earthquake that struck 143 km west of the city of Meiktila in Myanmar was of 6.8 magnitude

The hardest-hit towns in Italy were Amatrice and Accumoli though the earthquake was felt beyond the Lazio region into Umbria and Le Marche on the Adriatic coast

USGS scientists described it as the first discovery of its kind in the Indian Ocean that has the potential to be producible

There was no immediate tsunami warning, or reports of damage or casualties

A powerful 7.3 magnitude earthquake struck a southern island on Saturday, killing at least 32 people and injuring about a thousand

The earthquake was of 6.9 magnitude on the Richter scale and its epicentre was 74km southeast of Mawlaik, in Myanmar, says USGS

The earthquake hit at 1445 GMT some 68 miles south of the city of Banjar in West Java, at a depth of 35 kilometres, says USGS

The earthquake's epicentre was 58 miles below the surface, says USGS

The epicentre was 808 km southwest of Padang; any rescue efforts could be hampered by early nightfall

A trio of a professor, lawyer and child counsellor has predicted the dates in 2016 on which there is a high possibility of earthquakes and urged researchers to verify the claim