The Department of Disaster Prevention and Mitigationconfirmed immediately that an earthquake had occurred off Sumatra. The entire region was affected.
At 4.20pm Thailand's Royal Thai Navy reported a tsunami had been generated, but could not say of what scale.
News agency reports said the ''massive earthquake'' rocked Indonesia. It was not known whether the earthquake had triggered a tsunami, but many people were evacuating to be certain.
Residents of endangered areas were advised to switch on the television to listen to Channel 3 for reports. Mobile telephone services were quickly overwhelmed by mutliple calls.
It is believed evacuations were underway along parts of Phuket's holiday west coast and in Krabi and Phang Nga.
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