5.2-magnitude earthquake strikes off western Indonesia

JAKARTA -- An earthquake with a magnitude of 5.2 jolted off Indonesia's western province of West Sumatra on Monday, the country's meteorology, climatology and geophysics agency said.

The agency said previously that the quake's magnitude was at 5.3.

The earthquake jolted at 04:51 pm Jakarta time (0951 GMT) with the epicenter at 25 km southeast of Tuapejat village of Mentawai Islands Regency and a depth of 26 km, the agency reported.

No tsunami warning was issued as the tremors would not trigger giant waves, it added.

Indonesia, an archipelagic nation, has been frequently hit off by earthquakes for its position on a vulnerable quake-jolted area called "the Pacific Ring of Fire."