A mild intensity earthquake of magnitude 5.2 hit the Andaman Islands at around 5:41 a.m. on Wednesday.

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No damage to property or loss of lives has been reported so far.

Further details are awaited.

The area around the Andaman and Nicobar islands and the Indonesian archipelago is known to be a high seismic zone and often records such tremors.