Another Strong Quake 6.7 Rocks Indonesia's Sumatra
Pastor Dale Morgan
Another Strong Quake 6.7 Rocks Indonesia's Sumatra*
The Associated Press
Thursday, September 20, 2007; 6:43 AM
JAKARTA, Indonesia -- A strong undersea earthquake rocked parts of
Indonesia's Sumatra island Thursday, but there were no immediate reports
of damage or casualties.
The 6.7-magnitude quake that struck at 3:31 p.m. (4:31 a.m. EDT) was
centered 47 miles under the earth's surface, about 79 miles southwest of
Painan, a town in West Sumatra province.
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Yusuf, an official at the Jakarta office of Indonesia's Meteorology and
Geophysics Agency, said the temblor was felt in cities along the west
coast of Sumatra, but added there was no indication it would trigger a
tsunami.
The latest temblor followed last week's 8.4-magnitude quake that
triggered a 10-foot-high tsunami.
At least 23 people were killed as the quake destroyed hundreds of houses
along the western coast of Sumatra. More than 60 strong aftershocks have
followed the massive earthquake _ including two at magnitudes 7.8 and 7.1.
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 half a
million homeless.