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Quake Off Indonesia's Sumatra; No Tsunami Warning
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INDONESIA: October 11, 2007


JAKARTA - An undersea earthquake measuring 6.0 on the Richter scale hit southwestern Sumatra on Wednesday morning, Indonesia's meteorology agency said.


The agency did not issue a tsunami warning following the quake, which the US Geological Survey measured at magnitude 6.2.


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