Another Strong Earthquake Rattles Indonesia
Pastor Dale Morgan
Another Strong Earthquake Rattles Indonesia*
The Associated Press
Wednesday, September 26, 2007; 1:46 PM
JAKARTA, Indonesia -- A powerful undersea earthquake rattled western
Indonesia on Wednesday, officials said, but there were no immediate
reports of injuries or damage.
The 6.4-magnitude quake was centered 80 miles southwest of Padang, a
town on Sumatra island still recovering from a series of strong tremors
that killed nearly two dozen people earlier this month, the U.S.
Geological Survey reported.
It struck nearly 21 miles beneath the ocean floor at 10:43 p.m., the
USGS said.
Indonesia, the world's largest archipelago, is prone to seismic upheaval
due to its location on the so-called Pacific "Ring of Fire," an arc of
volcanos and fault lines encircling the Pacific Basin.
A massive earthquake and subsequent tsunami on Dec. 26, 2004, killed
more than 131,000 people in Indonesia's Aceh province and left a
half-million homeless.