Molucca Sea Quake (USGS map) |
JAKARTA, Indonesia -- A powerful earthquake struck off the coast of Indonesia on Monday.
According to the U.S. Geological Survey, the quake was magnitude 6.3, and was centered in the Molucca Sea at a depth of about 12 miles.
The earthquake rattled nerves. Some people living in villages along the coast ran to higher ground for fear of a tsunami.
Indonesian officials said that, because of its depth, there was no danger that the quake would cause a tsunami, but some villagers played it safe and fled the beach areas anyway.
A huge and devastating earthquake off the Indonesian Coast on Dec. 26, 2004, triggered a tsunami in the Indian Ocean that killed 230,000 people, about half of them in Indonesia's western province of Aceh.
According to the U.S. Geological Survey, the quake was magnitude 6.3, and was centered in the Molucca Sea at a depth of about 12 miles.
The earthquake rattled nerves. Some people living in villages along the coast ran to higher ground for fear of a tsunami.
Indonesian officials said that, because of its depth, there was no danger that the quake would cause a tsunami, but some villagers played it safe and fled the beach areas anyway.
A huge and devastating earthquake off the Indonesian Coast on Dec. 26, 2004, triggered a tsunami in the Indian Ocean that killed 230,000 people, about half of them in Indonesia's western province of Aceh.
