A brief tsunami warning has been issued after a strong earthquake hit off of Indonesia's main island. The epicenter was centered about 200 miles off southern Java, just 15 miles beneath the ocean floor. Just after 90 minutes after the quake, the tsunami threat had passed and people, whom gathered in mosques on high ground, were told to return home.
Indonesia is prone to seismic upheavel due to its location on the so-called, "Ring of Fire," an arc of volcanoes and fault lines encircling the Pacific Basin. A slightly smaller quake shook Fiji just hours later.
http://www.newser.com/story/115524/indonesia-earthquake-triggers-tsunami-warning.html
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