Tuesday, March 29, 2005

Hundreds Die in Indonesia After Undersea Earthquake (washingtonpost.com)

Hundreds Die in Indonesia After Undersea Earthquake (washingtonpost.com): "Hundreds Die in Indonesia After Undersea Earthquake
By Ellen Nakashima
Washington Post Foreign Service
Tuesday, March 29, 2005; Page A01
MEDAN, Indonesia, March 29 -- A major underwater earthquake struck off the coast of Indonesia's Sumatra island late Monday, killing hundreds of people and crushing buildings on a nearby resort island, according to Indonesian police.
Panicking residents raced to higher ground from the shoreline in Sumatra, fearing that a tsunami would be generated. A larger earthquake in the same region on Dec. 26 produced a tsunami that killed an estimated 280,000 people in eleven countries around the Indian Ocean. Tsunami warnings blared in Sri Lanka, India and Thailand, which were hit in December, but no killer waves were produced. "

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