| earthquake in Indonesia Magnitude 8.9 - earthquake April 11 2012 earthquake in Aceh Province, Indonesia Indonesia issued a tsunami warning after a quake with a preliminary magnitude of 8.9 hit waters off westernmost Aceh province. The US Geological Survey said Wednesday the quake was centered 20 miles beneath the ocean floor around 308 miles from the provincial capital of Banda Aceh. Said, an official at Indonesia's Meteorology and Geophysics Agency who goes by only one name, said a tsunami warning has been issued. Indonesia straddles a series of fault lines that makes the vast island nation prone to volcanic and seismic activity. A giant 9.1-magnitude quake off the country on Dec. 26, 2004, triggered a tsunami in the Indian Ocean that killed 230000 people, nearly three quarter of them in Aceh. |
