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JAKARTA, Indonesia - Indonesia issued a tsunami warning early Thursday after a quake with a preliminary magnitude of 7.5 struck waters off its eastern coast.
It was not immediately clear if the quake caused any injuries or damage.
The U.S. Geological Survey said the quake was centered 200 miles northeast of Manado, a town on Sulawesi island. It had a depth of about 20 miles beneath the ocean floor.
Sulawesi is one of the larger islands on the eastern end of the sprawling chain comprising Indonesia.
The U.S. Pacific Tsunami Warning Center said no destructive widespread tsunami threat existed. But the agency added that earthquakes of this size sometimes generate local tsunamis that could be destructive along coasts located within roughly 60 miles of the quake epicenter.
Indonesia is prone to seismic upheaval due to its location on the so-called Pacific "Ring of Fire," an arc of volcanoes and fault lines encircling the Pacific Basin.
A 9.1 magnitude quake caused the 2004 tsunami that killed more than 232,000 people in Indonesia, Thailand, Sri Lanka, India and other countries across the Indian Ocean.
msnbc.com news services
updated less than 1 minute ago
JAKARTA, Indonesia - Indonesia issued a tsunami warning early Thursday after a quake with a preliminary magnitude of 7.5 struck waters off its eastern coast.
It was not immediately clear if the quake caused any injuries or damage.
The U.S. Geological Survey said the quake was centered 200 miles northeast of Manado, a town on Sulawesi island. It had a depth of about 20 miles beneath the ocean floor.
Sulawesi is one of the larger islands on the eastern end of the sprawling chain comprising Indonesia.
The U.S. Pacific Tsunami Warning Center said no destructive widespread tsunami threat existed. But the agency added that earthquakes of this size sometimes generate local tsunamis that could be destructive along coasts located within roughly 60 miles of the quake epicenter.
Indonesia is prone to seismic upheaval due to its location on the so-called Pacific "Ring of Fire," an arc of volcanoes and fault lines encircling the Pacific Basin.
A 9.1 magnitude quake caused the 2004 tsunami that killed more than 232,000 people in Indonesia, Thailand, Sri Lanka, India and other countries across the Indian Ocean.