Tsunami warning !

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A powerful 7.7-magnitude earthquake has struck eastern Indonesia, a local geological agency official tells The Associated Press. A tsunami warning was immediately issued and the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center says a destructive regional tsunami is possible. The official said the underwater quake hit off Sulawesi island. He did not have any immediate reports about damage or injuries.
 

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    This will not effect SL in anyway as the Earthquake happened in the Island of Sulawesi (I received the Tsunami warning messages as well ). If this happened on land, there will be quite a bit of damage done and if it happened at sea, the coast of Sulawesi and Eastern Java Islands will have some high tide.
     

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    The eastern Indonesian island of Sulawesi was struck by a magnitude-7.5 earthquake at 1:02 a.m. local time today, the U.S. Geological Survey said in an online alert. A second, less powerful shock rattled the same area about 30 minutes later.

    The first quake hit 85 miles (136 kilometers) northwest of Gorontalo in Sulawesi at a depth of 13 miles, the U.S. agency said. The second, with an initial magnitude of 5.8, was 87 miles northwest of Gorontalo at a depth of 28 miles. It was recorded at 1:34 a.m. local time, the USGS said.
    Indonesia's Meteorology and Geophysics Agency issued a tsunami warning after the earthquake, which it measured at 7.7 magnitude, Reuters reported.
     

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