Strong quake hits Indonesia, tsunami warning issued

[AnOhioan]

Source: Reuters

JAKARTA (Reuters) - An earthquake measuring 6.5 jolted central Indonesia's Nusa Tenggara island chain on Thursday, prompting a tsunami warning, the meteorological agency said.



Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070524/ts_nm/quake_indonesia_dc

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No other info yet

[KamaAina]

1. Nothing yet from Pacific Tsunami Warning Center in HI

but you can check it out here:

http://www.prh.noaa.gov/ptwc

edit: 'Tsumani' might be a good name for a Pacific-themed men's bar...

[malaise]

2. Jst heard that and checked. Iris says 5.5

which means the shake up in the Gulf of Mexico today was stronger.
http://www.iris.edu/seismon/

[Eugene]

3. Tsunami warning lifted after strong Indonesia quake

Source: Reuters

Tsunami warning lifted after strong Indonesia quake
24 May 2007 01:58:35 GMT
Source: Reuters

JAKARTA, May 24 (Reuters) - An undersea earthquake measuring 6.5
on the Richter scale jolted central Indonesia's Nusa Tenggara island
chain on Thursday, prompting a brief tsunami warning, the
meteorological agency said.

The quake struck near Sumbawa island at a depth of 19 km (11 miles)
but there were no immediate reports of casualties, Fauzi, head of
seismology at the meteorological and geophysics agency, told Reuters.

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The agency recalled the warning a short time later.

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Read more: http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/JAK184188.htm