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Warning center issues tsunami alert for Indian Ocean

Warning center issues tsunami alert for Indian Ocean
# 12 June 2010 22:55 (UTC +04:00)
"A tsunami watch is in effect for India, Indonesia, Sri Lanka, Myanmar, Thailand, Malaysia, for other areas of the Indian Ocean region," the Hawaii-based warning center said.
A major quake hit the Indian Ocean Sunday, around 160 kilometres (100 miles) from India’s Nicobar Islands, the US Geological Survey said.
"Earthquakes of this size have the potential to generate a destructive local tsunami and sometimes a destructive regional tsunami along coasts located usually no more than a thousand kilometers (620 miles) from the earthquake epicenter," the tsunami warning center said.
However, it added, "it is not known that a tsunami was generated. This watch is based only on the earthquake evaluation."
The bulletin, it said, "is issued as advice to government agencies," adding that the responsibility for issuing official alerts rests with national and local governments.
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