Saturday, August 18, 2007

Strong quakes shake Indonesia again!

A series of strong earthquakes rocked Indonesia early Friday. A 6.2-magnitude quake, with an epicentre nearly 250 kilometres (155 miles) southeast of Ambon in eastern Indonesia, struck at 0304 GMT.

Earlier at 0216 GMT, a 5.8-magnitude quake struck near the same area but there was no danger of a tsunami. Some 10 hours earlier, a 5.9-magnitude quake hit west of the island of Java, 280 kilometres southwest of the capital Jakarta.

The archipelago nation sits on the Pacific "Ring of Fire" where continental plates collide, causing frequent seismic and volcanic activity.

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