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Powerful earthquake hits Indonesia

By ROBIN McDOWELL, Associated Press Writer 2 hours, 43 minutes ago

JAKARTA, Indonesia - A powerful earthquake under the Java Sea rattled Indonesia's capital early Thursday, violently shaking
tall buildings and sending panicked residents into the streets.

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There were no immediate reports of damage, and geophysicists said there was
little risk of a tsunami.

The quake, which struck at 12:04 a.m. (1:04 p.m. EDT Wednesday) had a
preliminary magnitude of 7.5 and was centered about 65 miles east of Jakarta at a depth in the Earth of 180 miles, the
U.S. Geological Survey said.

Residents said tall buildings and single story homes shook violently in the
city of 9 million people, and water sloshed from swimming pools.

Many people were awakened by the quake and some people screamed "Allah
akbar!" or "God is great!" as they ran outside.

El-Shinta radio reported that the quake could be felt from Sumatra island in
the west to Bali to the east, but that there
were no immediate reports of damage.

The quake also was felt in parts of Malaysia,
said Don Blakeman, a geophysicist at the USGS National
Earthquake Information Center in Golden,
Colo.

None of the instruments closest to the earthquake indicated that a tsunami
was triggered, said Robert Cessaro, a geophysicist at the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center in Hawaii. He added that there were no instruments "very
close" to the quake's epicenter.

"Because this earthquake was so far below the ocean bottom, it didn't trigger
a tsunami or cause a lot of damage," said John Bellini, another USGS
geophysicist.

The Dec. 26, 2004, earthquake that triggered the tsunami off the coast of
Sumatra and killed more than 131,000 in Indonesia's Ache province was only 18 miles deep,
according to the USGS.

"The earthquake center in 2004 was close enough that it actually ruptured the
surface of the sea floor, which caused a tsunami," Bellini said. "This one was
felt by people on the ground, and it shook buildings, but it was too deep to
cause the ocean bottom to move."

Indonesia, the world's largest archipelago, is prone to seismic upheaval due
to its location on the so-called Pacific "Ring of Fire," an arc of volcanos and
fault lines encircling the Pacific Basin.

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Associated Press writers Chris Hawke in Bangkok,
Thailand, and Sarah DiLorenzo and Lily Hindy contributed to this story
from New York.

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