AMARAN GEMPA DAN TSUNAMI DI SABAH

MetMalaysia official told The Star that in the past two weeks, there were at least 24 earthquakes in Indonesia’s Sulawesi and Lesser Sunda Islands and the Philippines’ Mindanao island, with the magnitude ranging between 4.4 and 6.0 on the

“We are worried that an earthquake could take place in the middle of the sea, resulting in a tsunami which could engulf Sabah’s northern or easterly coast towns,” the official said.

At 1.30am on Thursday, a 1.2-magnitude earthquake struck Sabah. The quake was detected at a depth of 9km, with its epicentre located 13km northeast of Ranau.