အင္ဒိုနီးရွား တြင္ အင္အားၾကီးမားေသာ ငလွ်င္လွုပ္

A magnitude 7.0 earthquake has hit eastern Indonesia, triggering a tsunami warning early which was later lifted. The quake, which struck off the eastern province of Papua on Wednesday, was initially reported as a magnitude 6.4. The US Geological Survey said the quake was centred some 30km beneath the ocean floor off Papua's northern coast. It was followed by a strong aftershock. There were no initial reports of damage or casualties but residents said the tremor caused panic. Yan Pieter Yarangga, a resident from the town of Biak, said hundreds of people ran out of their homes and fled beaches with some racing for higher ground for fear of a tsunami. "I ran too, I was afraid there would be a second quake,'' he said. Wednesday's quake that hit Papua's coast was located more than 3,000km from the country's capital, Jakarta. Indonesia straddles a series of fault lines that make the vast island nation prone to volcanic and seismic activity. A giant quake off the country on December 26, 2004, triggered the Indian Ocean tsunami that killed 230,000 people, half of them in Indonesia's westernmost province of Aceh.