BREAKING NEWS – Mag 7.9 Quake Rocks Indonesia; Tsunami Alert – Asia | Travel | Map – FOXNews.com
BREAKING NEWS — A powerful magnitude 7.9 earthquake has struck near the island of Sumatra in western Indonesia, the U.S. Geological Survey reports.
The quake damaged houses and bridges, and caused fires in the city of Padang in Sumatra, a Reuters witness said on Wednesday.
The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center issued a tsunami alert for Indonesia, Malaysia, India and Thailand.
Shaking could be felt in high buildings in the capital, Jakarta, several hundred miles, kilometers away and in neighboring Singapore and Malaysia.
The new quake comes on the heels of a magnitude 8 tembler that struck yesterday in the south Pacific Ocean, generating a tsunami that killed at least 99 people in the Samoa islands.
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