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Message: <blockquote data-quote="lkdood" data-source="post: 7438989" data-attributes="member: 92282">A local tsunami  alert was issued and later lifted after an earthquake of magnitude 7.4  struck Sumatra, Indonesia, the country's quake agency and the United  States Geological Survey (USGS) reported on Sunday."Sea level readings indicate that a  significant tsunami was not generated. Therefore the tsunami watch  issued by this center is now canceled," the USGS said. West Aceh police chief Djoko Widodo, told  Reuters that the quake, which happened at 0559 GMT around 140 miles  south of Banda Aceh, briefly caused panic."From  what I see around my office, there's no damage but I see people running  out of their houses. They are still outside, afraid to go back," he  said.The Indonesian archipelago  stretches across a seismically active area known as the Pacific Ring of  Fire and is prone to earthquakes and volcanoes.A 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami on Sumatra  island killed 170,000 people in Aceh province alone, while more than  1,000 people died after a powerful quake hit the city of Padang last  September.<a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE6480F220100509" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.reuters.com/resources_v2/images/logo_footer.gif" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a></blockquote>

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