Friday, November 26, 2004

Strong Quake Shakes Indonesia

(Jakarta) Eleven people have been reported killed and 65 injured from an earthquake (0225 GMT) in Indonesia's Papua Province. Centered close to the town of Nabire, almost 2,000 miles northeast of Jakarta, the quake measured 6.4 at the National Earthquake Center in Indonesia. Geoscience Australia and the Hong Kong Observatory recorded the earthquake at 7.2 on the Richter scale.

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