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An earthquake measuring 6.0 on the Richter scale rocked Indonesia's Sumatra island on Tuesday, causing panic but there were no reports of casualties or damage, meteorologists said. The off-shore quake hit at 8:52 am (0152 GMT), with an epicentre 190 kilometres (117 miles) west of the coastal town of Sibolga in West Sumatra province, said the National Meteorology and Geophysics Agency. The quake was felt strongly on Nias island, where an 8.7-magnitude earthquake on March 28 killed more than 900 people. A 9.3-magnitude quake along the same fault-line as Tuesday's tremor triggered last year's Indian Ocean tsunami disaster which left more than 180,000 people dead. All rights reserved. © 2005 Agence France-Presse. Sections of the information displayed on this page (dispatches, photographs, logos) are protected by intellectual property rights owned by Agence France-Presse. As a consequence, you may not copy, reproduce, modify, transmit, publish, display or in any way commercially exploit any of the content of this section without the prior written consent of Agence France-Presse. Related Links TerraDaily Search TerraDaily Subscribe To TerraDaily Express 
Tsunami Warning System Ready By July 2006 - UNESCO
Paris (AFP) Jun 30, 2005A detection system to warn of tsunamis like the one that devastated the coasts of south Asia last December will be operational by July 2006, the United Nations science and culture organisation UNESCO said Thursday. |
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