Thursday, October 1, 2009

Strong earthquake in Tonga

KUALA LUMPUR: A strong earthquake of magnitude 6.4 occurred in the Tonga Islands at 9.08am Friday at latitude 15.82 South and longitude 174.8 West.

A Meteorologial Department statement here said that the epicentre was located 7,021km west of Davao in the Philippines and from 7,717km west of Tawau, Sabah.

There is no tsunami threat to Malaysia. -- Bernama

source; www.thestar.com
http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2009/10/2/nation/20091002123613&sec=nation

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