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Message: <blockquote data-quote="kalu mama" data-source="post: 12487554" data-attributes="member: 381853">Tsunami danger only near quake epicentreTsunami danger only near quake epicentre           Parts of Indonesia's Sumatra island remain in danger from a tsunami  following a series of powerful earthquakes off the Indonesian coast,  but damage across the Indian Ocean basin is not expected, an official  with the U.S. Pacific Tsunami Warning Center said.  "So far all we've seen is on the order of about a meter or three feet  or so, peak-to-peak," said Barry Hirshorn, a geophysicist at center,  referring to waves measured by gauges mounted on buoys.  "And we've observed that on our closest gauge to the actual epicenter. The gauge is just off northern shore of Sumatra.   "We don't expect damage basin-wide, but there is danger nearby the  source. So the tsunami danger is to the coastlines closest to the  earthquake, which would be northern Sumatra."</blockquote>

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