http://earthquake.usgs.gov/eqcenter/recenteqsww/Quakes/usqgaf.php
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060717/ap_on_re_as/indonesia_earthquake;_ylt=Aj9QBoeRzf0JhIR8LmEPBREBxg8F
http://www.prh.noaa.gov/ptwc/latest.txt
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JAKARTA, Indonesia - An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 7.2 sent a 6-foot-high tsunami crashing into a beach resort on Indonesia's Java island Monday, damaging hotels and sending boats smashing into houses, a witness told a local radio station.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200607/s1688817.htm
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A tsunami alert has been raised for parts of Australia and Indonesia after a 7.2-magnitude quake jolted the seabed off the Indonesian coast and sent people panicking into the streets.
Geological experts warn that the quake, south of the Indonesian island of Java, could trigger tsunamis that could hit coastal areas.
"If people in coastal areas felt the tremor strongly, they should immediately flee to higher ground," Budi Waluyo, a seismologist at the geophysics agency in Jakarta, said.
"There is a possibility that tsunamis could occur in waters close to the epicentre," said an official at the Japan Meteorological Agency.
"Tsunamis may reach coasts of Australia facing the Indian Ocean but we don't know for sure."
The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center in Hawaii says on its website that a local alert is in effect for some Australian and Indonesian coastal areas.
"A destructive widespread tsunami threat does not exist based on historical earthquake and tsunami data," the centre said.
"However there is the possibility of a local tsunami that could affect coasts."
But there had been no reports of a tsunami in Indonesia more than an hour after the quake.
An underwater quake triggered a tsunami in the Indian Ocean in December 2004 that killed 220,000 people, including 168,000 in Indonesia's province of Aceh.
Today's tremor was felt for about a minute in Jakarta, unnerving workers in tall office buildings in the capital as well as in parts of West Java.
"People ran out of their offices in panic," an office worker told ElShinta radio.
Indonesia sits on the Pacific "Ring of Fire", where the meeting of continental plates causes high volcanic and seismic activity.