The Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) assured that no Filipino was hurt in the 7.7 earthquake that jolted Indonesia’s Sumatra Island early Wednesday morning.

“The DFA received initial reports from the Philippine embassy in Jakarta that there has been no injuries among Filipinos during the earthquake that shook Sumatra Island,” DFA Spokesman J. Eduardo Malaya said.

“There are some 7,000 Filipinos in Indonesia but only a few reside in Sumatra Island,” he added.

According to Malaya, most of the Filipinos in Indonesia are based in Java Island, where the capital city of Jakarta and other major cities are located.

The very strong quake was recorded at 5:15 a.m. Wednesday with its epicenter found at some 125 miles northwest of Sibolga town in Sumatra with a focal depth of 19 miles.

Sumatra Island in western Indonesia is the country’s largest island and the sixth largest in the world.

It was recalled that on December 26, 2004, a 9.1-magnitude earthquake occurred in the western coast of Sumatra. The United States Geological Survey (USGS) said it is the fourth strongest earthquake since the 1900 and had affected countries near the Pacific and Atlantic oceans, including Sri Lanka, India, Thailand, Somalia, Maldives, Malaysia, Myanmar, Tanzania, Seychelles, Bangladesh, and Kenya.