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A building in Sumatra, Indonesia, destroyed by the earthquake on Wednesday. |
Indonesia, which sits along a fault-line, has been reeling from a series of aftershocks following a major earthquake on Wednesday night. The quake set off tremors from Singapore to Thailand and seven tsunami warnings that were withdrawn by the Indonesian government in under 48 hours.
Here is a time line of the stronger quakes and summary of what happened:
12 Sept 2007, Wednesday 1st quake Magnitude: 8.2
Time: 6:00pm (1100 GMT)
Location: 100km southwest of the city of Bengkulu, west coast of Sumatra
Quake depth: About 30km
Indonesia sounded 1st tsunami warning.
Tremors felt in: Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand
Other areas which issued tsunami warnings: Malaysia, Sri Lanka, the Maldives, India, Mauritius, the US Pacific Tsunami Warning Centre
2nd quake
Magnitude: 6.6
Time: 9:40pm (1440 GMT)
Location: 70km southwest of the city of Bengkulu
Quake depth: About 18km
Indonesia sounded 2nd tsunami alert.
13 Sept 2007, Thursday3rd quake Magnitude: 7.8
Time: 6:49am (2349 GMT)
Location: 140km southwest of the town of Jambi, central Sumatra
Quake depth: About 24km
Indonesia sounded 3rd tsunami alert
4th quake
Magnitude: 6.7
Time: 8:26am (0126 GMT)
Location: 130km southwest of the town of Painan, west Sumatra
Quake depth: About 46km
Indonesia sounded 4th tsunami alert
Tremors felt in: Singapore
5th quake
Magnitude: 6.4
Time: 5:48 pm (0948 GMT)
Location: 290km northeast of the port of Bitung, north Sulawesi
Quake depth: About 30km
Indonesia sounded 5th tsunami alert
14 Sept 2007, Friday6th quake Magnitude: 6.8
Time: 12.09 pm (1709 GMT)
Location: 121km northwest of the city of Bengkulu
Quake depth: About 10km
Indonesia sounded 6th tsunami alert
Tremors felt in: Singapore
7th quake
Magnitude: 6.9
Time: 2.15 pm (0615 GMT)
Location: 161km southwest of the city of Bengkulu
Quake depth: About 10km
Indonesia sounded 7th tsunami alert
Tremors felt in: Singapore
20 Sept 2007, Thursday8th quake Magnitude: 6.7
Time: 4:31pm (0831 GMT)
Location: Same area as last week's powerful quake, but no specific location released
Quake depth: About 76km
Tremors felt in: Singapore
27 Sept 2007, Thursday9th quake Magnitude: 6.5
Time: 10:43pm (1543 GMT)
Location: 130 kilometres southwest of the city of Padang
Quake depth: About 35km
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