• 8.7 quake triggers Indonesian tsunami warning
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[QUOTE]JAKARTA, INDONESIA Indonesia issued a tsunami warning Wednesday after an earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 8.7 hit waters off westernmost Aceh province.People on Twitter said tremors were felt in Singapore, Thailand, Malaysia and India. High-rise apartments and offices on Malaysia’s west coast shook for at least a minute. The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center in Hawaii said a tsunami watch was in effect for Indonesia, India, Sri Lanka, Australia, Myanmar, Thailand, the Maldives and other Indian Ocean islands, Malaysia, Pakistan, Somalia, Oman, Iran, Bangladesh, Kenya, South Africa and Singapore. A tsunami watch means there is the potential for a tsunami, not that one is imminent. The U.S. Geological Survey said the powerful quake was centred 33 kilometres (20 miles) beneath the ocean floor around 495 kilometres (308 miles) from Aceh’s provincial capital. Said, an official at Indonesia’s Meteorology and Geophysics Agency who goes by only one name, said a tsunami warning has been issued. Indonesia straddles a series of fault lines that makes the vast island nation prone to volcanic and seismic activity. A giant 9.1-magnitude quake off the country on Dec. 26, 2004, triggered a tsunami in the Indian Ocean that killed 230,000 people, nearly three quarter of them in Aceh.[/QUOTE] It's on the local news right now. It's just a little smaller than the one that hit Thailand. Oh, sorry I didn't notice the other thread on it. If a mod sees this, could they shut-down this thread if needed. Thanks in advanced.
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