Indonesia issues tsunami warning after 8.9 quake:

Indonesia issued a tsunami warning Wednesday after an earthquake with
a preliminary magnitude of 8.9 hit waters off westernmost Aceh
province.
People on Twitter said tremors were felt in Singapore, Thailand,
Malaysia and India. High-rise apartments and offices on Malaysia's
west coast shook for at least a minute.
The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center in Hawaii said a tsunami watch was
in effect for Indonesia, India, Sri Lanka, Australia, Myanmar,
Thailand, the Maldives and other Indian Ocean islands, Malaysia,
Pakistan, Somalia, Oman, Iran, Bangladesh, Kenya, South Africa and
Singapore.
A tsunami watch means there is the potential for a tsunami, not that
one is imminent.
The U.S. Geological Survey said the powerful quake was centered 20
miles (33 kilometers) beneath the ocean floor around 308 miles (495
kilometers) from Aceh's provincial capital.
Said, an official at Indonesia's Meteorology and Geophysics Agency who
goes by only one name, said a tsunami warning has been issued.
Indonesia straddles a series of fault lines that makes the vast island
nation prone to volcanic and seismic activity.
A giant 9.1-magnitude quake off the country on Dec. 26, 2004,
triggered a tsunami in the Indian Ocean that killed 230,000 people,
nearly three quarter of them in Aceh/

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