Series of quakes hit Indonesia
- added February 25, 2008
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A 6.7 earthquake hit Indonesia at about 1 pm EST, about 10 hours after a 7.0 quake hit the same are. It was the 10th quake over 5.0 on the Richter scale to hit the region since Sunday morning. No damage or fatalities have been reported in the string of tremblers...but that many quakes in a row, and I bet people's nerves are trembling!
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The same area was hit by a more powerful quake of magnitude 8.4 in September last year that killed at least 25 people and toppled thousands of homes.
Indonesia suffers from frequent earthquakes as it lies in the so-called "Pacific Ring of Fire," an area of intense seismic activity where a number of tectonic plates collide.
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Cosmo, get your hammock, cause you and I also reside on the ring of fire.... AND you've got a bunch of Volcanoes! yikes! It's the price we pay to live in paradise...
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