Undersea quake rattles Indonesia

[Pastor Dale Morgan]

*Great Earthquakes In Diverse Places*

*Undersea quake rattles Indonesia*

From correspondents in Jakarta

September 09, 2006 04:35pm
Article from: Reuters

AN undersea earthquake with a magnitude of 6.6 jolted western Indonesia
today, but a meteorological agency official said there was no danger of
a tsunami.

There were no immediate reports of any deaths or damage after the quake
centred in the Flores sea at a depth of 573km, said Muhaimin, an analyst
at the meteorology and geophysics agency.

Earthquakes are frequent in Indonesia, a sprawling archipelago of some
17,000 islands that lies in the so called “Pacific Ring of Fire”.

The country has been on edge since a tsunami slammed into the southern
coast of Java island in July, killing around 600 people. It was the
second tsunami to hit the country in less than two years.

In December 2004, a devastating tsunami hit the northern tip of
Indonesia's Sumatra island, leaving some 170,000 dead or missing in the
country.