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Indonesia lifts tsunami alert after Sumatra quake
Posted: 14 September 2007 1529 hrs

  An official of Indonesia's Meteorological Agency (BMG) monitors screens in Jakarta.
 
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JAKARTA: Indonesia on Friday lifted a tsunami alert that was issued along the west coast of Sumatra island after a major 6.9-magnitude aftershock rattled the area, the meteorological agency said.

"The tsunami warning is cancelled," the agency said in a telephone text message about an hour after the quake struck at 0601 GMT, 161 kilometres (100 miles) southwest of the city of Bengkulu at a depth of 10 kilometres.

Bengkulu was one of the areas worst hit by a powerful 8.4-magnitude quake that rocked Sumatra's west coast on Wednesday at dusk.

At least 13 people were killed and thousands of buildings damaged by the quake and a series of aftershocks that followed. Several tsunami alerts have been issued and then called off. - AFP/ac

 


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