国产热热热精品,亚洲视频久久】日韩,三级婷婷在线久久,99人妻精品视频,精品九热人人肉肉在线,AV东京热一区二区,91po在线视频观看,久久激情宗合,青青草黄色手机视频

World / Asia-Pacific

Indonesia quake sparks tsunami warning

(Agencies) Updated: 2014-11-15 13:33

Indonesia quake sparks tsunami warning

This December 2004 file photo shows an injured Indonesian victim waits for treatment at a hospital in Banda Aceh following?a devastating earthquake and Tsunami in northwest Indonesia. [Photo/Agencies] 

JAKARTA - A major earthquake with a magnitude of 7.3 was recorded off the Moluccas in Indonesia on Saturday, the national disaster mitigation agency said, causing residents near the quake to flee their homes after a tsunami warning was issued.

The earthquake was felt strongly on the Sitaro islands, where authorities also warned people to stay away from beaches and riverbanks, Sutopo Purwo Nugroho, a spokesman at Indonesian agency, said in a statement.

There were no reports of casualties or major damage. MetroTV reported power cuts in some parts of Manado, the capital of North Sulawesi province.

"It was strong," said Regina Saerang, an eyewitness in Manado. "I felt it for about a minute. There was no damage but people on my street are pouring out of our houses."

The head of the disaster mitigation agency had ordered the preparation of aircraft and logistics in case they were needed and further checks of the affected areas were being made, Nugroho said.

The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center in Hawaii said hazardous tsunamis were possible within 300 km (185 miles) of the quake's epicentre, although there was no danger of a Pacific-wide tsunami.

It had also warned that tsunamis could be expected to reach Indonesia, the Philippines, Palau, Papua New Guinea, the Solomon Islands and the Marshall Islands, and even as far away as Taiwan and Japan's Okinawa.

The first waves could reach land within 30 minutes and the last within about six hours. "The initial wave may not be the largest," the centre warned.

However, Malaysian, Thai and Sri Lankan disaster agencies all soon said they would not be impacted by the quake but would continue to monitor the situation.

In the Philippines, Renato Solidum, head of the Philippine seismology agency, told reporters there was no tsunami threat. It had earlier warned small tsunami waves were possible in southern Mindanao.

The quake was measured at a depth of 47 km (34 miles), with the epicentre 134 km (83 miles) northwest of Ternate, an island in eastern Indonesia's Moluccas.

Another quake measuring 6.2 was recorded soon after off Indonesia's Sulawesi, according to the USGS.

Indonesia is located inside the so-called "Pacific Ring of Fire," a seismically active zone where different plates of the earth's crust meet and create a large number of earthquakes and volcanoes.

Trudeau visits Sina Weibo
May gets little gasp as EU extends deadline for sufficient progress in Brexit talks
Ethiopian FM urges strengthened Ethiopia-China ties
Yemen's ex-president Saleh, relatives killed by Houthis
Most Popular
Hot Topics

...
修文县| 灵山县| 汉中市| 凯里市| 即墨市| 新晃| 竹溪县| 澳门| 盐山县| 红河县| 普兰店市| 宜君县| 新民市| 崇左市| 保亭| 星子县| 忻城县| 西宁市| 尚义县| 永泰县| 隆安县| 日喀则市| 磐石市| 封丘县| 青神县| 汉阴县| 长治县| 龙海市| 蕉岭县| 凯里市| 浪卡子县| 库尔勒市| 苏州市| 密山市| 抚远县| 池州市| 来安县| 博兴县| 双牌县| 电白县| 衡南县|