Indonesia has issued a tsunami warning after a quake with a preliminary
magnitude of 8.9 hit waters off westernmost Aceh province.
The U.S. Geological Survey said
Wednesday the quake was centered 20 miles (33 kilometers) beneath the
ocean floor around 308 miles (495 kilometers) from the provincial
capital of Banda Aceh.
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. AP
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