BREAKING NEWS: 7.5 magnitude earthquake rocks eastern Indonesia; tsunami warnings issued

[Lochloosa]

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Read more: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29137662

[KamaAina]

1. NO tsunami warning issued for Hawai'i or the Pacific

http://www.prh.noaa.gov/hnl/tsunami_msgs/HEBTIBHWX.200902111947

AN EARTHQUAKE HAS OCCURRED WITH THESE PRELIMINARY PARAMETERS

ORIGIN TIME - 0735 AM HST 11 FEB 2009
COORDINATES - 3.8 NORTH 126.8 EAST
LOCATION - TALAUD ISLANDS INDONESIA
MAGNITUDE - 7.4 MOMENT

EVALUATION

BASED ON ALL AVAILABLE DATA A DESTRUCTIVE PACIFIC-WIDE TSUNAMI IS
NOT EXPECTED AND THERE IS NO TSUNAMI THREAT TO HAWAII. REPEAT. A
DESTRUCTIVE PACIFIC-WIDE TSUNAMI IS NOT EXPECTED AND THERE IS NO
TSUNAMI THREAT TO HAWAII.

THIS WILL BE THE ONLY STATEMENT ISSUED FOR THIS EVENT UNLESS
ADDITIONAL DATA ARE RECEIVED.

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[Lochloosa]

2. Good. Thanks.

[Ediacara]

3. It's not exactly eastern Indonesia, more like northern Indonesia, southern Philippines

Regardless... Apparently Indonesia issued a tsunami warning:

http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/2009/02/11/world/international-us-indonesia-quake.html

The USGS has a magnitude of M_w 7.0:

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/eqcenter/recenteqsww/Quakes/us2009cybb.php

Which is about 5.6x smaller than M_w 7.5.

[AngryAmish]

4. thats a big one