Tsunami Warning Lifted After Magnitude 7.8 Quake Off Indonesia
- 2004 tsunami off Sumatra island killed more than 220,000
- Indonesia's islands sit along `ring of fire' of volcanoes
The U.S. Geological Survey said the epicenter was about 500 miles west-southwest of Padang, Indonesia and 529 miles north-northwest of the Cocos Islands.
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Indonesian authorities lifted a tsunami warning issued after a magnitude 7.8 earthquake struck off the island of Sumatra, in a region where an undersea tremor killed hundreds of thousands in 2004.
The tremor hit 500 miles (804 kilometers) southwest of Padang in Sumatra at a depth of about 15 miles, the U.S. Geological Survey said. Indonesia’s national disaster mitigation agency initially reported the quake at a magnitude of 8.3.