On Friday a strong earthquake of 6.0 magnitude on the Richter scale hit the coast of Indonesia’s Sumatra Island, near Aceh, according to the national meteorological agency.

No damages were reported and no tsunami warning was issued.

The undersea earthquake hit the island at 6:02 a.m. (2302 GMT Thursday), 113 kilometers (70 miles) southwest of the provincial capital of Banda Aceh.

The epicenter of the earthquake was at depth of 16 kilometers (10 miles), Reuters reports.

The natural gas production area in Arun operated by U.S. Exxon Mobil was not affected by the earthquake, according to an official at Indonesia's oil and gas watchdog.

Almost 500-600 million cubic feet of natural gas per day are produced by the facility. It also supplies an LNG plant in Arun.

According to the official, Arun LNG plant didn’t suffer any damage from the earthquake.

In September 12 an earthquake of 8.4 magnitude on the Richter scale hit western Sumatra. Over 20 people were killed and thousands were left homeless after the quake destroyed the houses in the area.

The area suffered a series of quakes and aftershocks, thus warning of tsunami were sent in Indonesia and other countries in the region.

Indonesia is located in the Pacific Ring of Fire, a belt with intense seismic and volcanic activity caused by the moving of the continental plates.

On December 2004 the Aceh province, about 1,350 kilometers north-west of Jakarta, was hit by an earthquake of 9.0-magnitude on the Richter scale that triggered a big tsunami in the Indian Ocean. More Than 230,000 people were killed in the region, 170,000 of them Indonesians.