A powerful earthquake has hit waters of western Indonesia, making local officials issue a tsunami warning.
The quake had a preliminary magnitude of 7.3 and struck 260 miles off the coast of Aceh province.
It was centered 18 miles beneath the ocean.
An official with Indonesia's geological agency, said a tsunami warning has been issued.
Indonesia
is prone to this type of upheaval due to its location on the Pacific "Ring
of Fire," an arc of volcanos and fault lines encircling the Pacific
Basin.
A giant quake off the
country on Dec. 26, 2004, caused a tsunami in the Indian Ocean that
killed 230,000 people, half of them in Aceh.
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