Indian tsunami centre says no alert after major quake

NEW DELHI: India's national tsunami warning centre said Tuesday it had issued no alert in the wake of a huge 7.6 magnitude earthquake that struck off the Andaman Islands between India and Myanmar.

"We haven't issued any tsunami warning so far," said Ravichandra Vedula, an official with the Indian National Centre for Ocean Information Services in the southern city of Hyderabad.

"We are monitoring all data on water levels and no anomaly has been observed. Everything is normal," Vedula told AFP.

The quake hit at 1:55 am (1955GMT) around 263 kilometres (163 miles) north of Port Blair, the main town in the Andamans, and was around 33 kilometres (20.2 miles) deep, the US Geological Survey reported.

The USGS said a tsunami watch had been issued for India, Myanmar, Indonesia, Thailand and Bangladesh.