Powerful Earthquake Shakes Indonesia

Posted by NG Kids in News Bites on April 12, 2012
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An 8.6-magnitude earthquake, and a strong aftershock, struck off the coast of Indonesia yesterday. The earthquake was followed by a small tsunami, unlike the December 2004 earthquake, which was followed by a major tsunami. “The waves were just below 1 meter [3.3 feet],” said Emile Okal, a geophysicist at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois. “That is significant, but it’s not going to do much damage.”

The major earthquake that devastated Japan last year had a magnitude of 8.9 and triggered a deadly tsunami.

Read more about Wednesday’s earthquake on National Geographic News.

Read about the 2011 earthquake in Japan on News Bites.

Photograph by Heri Juanda, AP

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Comments

  1. oceangirl15
    April 14, 2012, 3:02 pm

    My first ever comment! And here to! :D Wow, 8.6? That’s still powerful, even if the 2004 one was stronger. Scary!

  2. ipadincalifornia
    April 14, 2012, 4:16 pm

    oh, i hope everyones ok.
    i hav family there and we called them to check.
    anyway, i wonder how plp r doing

  3. mizz butterfly
    April 17, 2012, 11:42 am

    how bad was it, but any way i feel sorry for them

  4. hubblespacetelescope11
    May 12, 2012, 5:21 am

    I hope no one got hurt.

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