Indonesia rocked by 7.5 magnitude quake, tsunami warning issued

Indonesia was struck by a very strong magnitude 7.5 earthquake on Friday, the US Geological Survey said, triggering the national disaster agency to issue a tsunami warning that was later lifted.

The quake hit central Sulawesi island at a shallow depth of about 10km, just hours after a smaller quake killed at least one person in the same part of the country.

Indonesia's disaster agency issued a tsunami warning for the west coast of Sulawesi and east coast of Indonesia's part of Borneo island, but later lifted the alert.
A series of earthquakes in July and August killed nearly 500 people on the holiday island of Lombok, hundreds of kilometres southwest of Sulawesi.
Indonesia sits on the Pacific Ring of Fire and is regularly hit by earthquakes.
In 2004, a big earthquake off the northern Indonesian island of Sumatra triggered a tsunami across the Indian Ocean, killing 226,000 people in 13 countries, including more than 120,000 in Indonesia.
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