Two tectonic earthquakes rocked Banda Aceh, capital city of Aceh Province, and its surroundings respectively at 21:00 p.m. and 11:43 a.m. local time on Sunday, official news agency Antara quoted sources as saying.

The scale and epicenter of the latest quake was not specified yet, while the earlier one measured at 5.5 on the Richter Scale with its epicenter at 5.74 degrees northern latitude and 94.38 degrees eastern longitude, said Akbar, an operator at the Meteorology and Geophysics Center.

While no casualty was reported yet, the quakes sparked panic among residents and prompted them to flee to safer places, sources said.

Thousands of people had perished and hundreds of others gone missing in last year's killer tsunami, which devastated the westernmost province of Indonesia.

Source: Xinhua