
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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