9/14/2007
JAKARTA : A series of earthquakes rattled Sumatra island Friday morning, following the 7.9 magnitude earthquake that hit Bengkulu on Wednesday.The Meteorology and Geophysics Agency (BMG) reported on its website that at least 11 quakes, with magnitudes ranging from 4.5 to 5.9 on the Ritcher scale, had hit Sumatra on Friday morning up until 11:30 a.m. The strongest tremor occurred at 8:02a.m. and had an epicenter 80 kilometers southwest of Lais, Bengkulu, with a depth of 10 kilometers.BMG warned residents early Thursday of the possibility of quakes and tsunamis along the west coast of Sumatra over the next two weeks.
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