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    Quake off east Indonesia panics many; no tsunami

    JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — A strong earthquake hit waters off eastern Indonesia on Monday, sending people on nearby islands fleeing from their homes in panic. Fearing a tsunami that never came, villagers living along coastlines ran to high ground.

    The 6.3-magnitude quake was centered 12 miles (20 kilometers) beneath the Molucca Sea, the U.S. Geological Survey said.

    Many people in Ternate, the town in North Maluku province that was closest to the epicenter, scurried from shaking buildings, said George Rajaloa, a resident.

    "I ran with everyone else," he said.

    Suhardjono, from the Indonesian meteorological and geophysics agency, said at that magnitude and depth there was no danger of tsunami.

    But residents fled beaches all the same.

    Indonesia straddles a series of fault lines that make the vast island nation prone to volcanic and seismic activity.

    A giant quake off the country on Dec. 26, 2004, triggered a tsunami in the Indian Ocean that killed 230,000 people, half of them in Indonesia's westernmost province of Aceh.

     
    • sleepypinky  •  Oklahoma City, United States  •  6 mths ago
      Had another 3.0 yesterday in OK. That's not big, but it sure is scary! I have lived here my whole life and NEVER have we had earthquakes. (that I recall) Something is happening.
      • Sparky and Us 6 mths ago
        How much fracking go you have going on in your area by the oil companies?
      • 200 6 mths ago
        May 2012 the movie!
      • Cream 6 mths ago
        2012 is happening
    • Everson  •  Scranton, United States  •  6 mths ago
      a pole shift is very possible....da USA might be da new North Pole when its all said and done...LIKE I SAID IT'S POSSIBLE
      • michaell 6 mths ago
        If the poles shift, which is very possible, it will wipe outg 99.9 percent of the population. Back to the stoneage, if we're lucky.
      • David 6 mths ago
        The U.K. will no longer exist. Utter extinction, and the governments of the World know this.
      • Al 6 mths ago
        I saw it on Ancient Aliens so it must possible.
    • jesse  •  6 mths ago
      is it me or is it real ? there seems to be more an more earth quakes daily/weekly around the world?....time could be running out for mankind?????????????
      • Persian Princess 6 mths ago
        that could be true Jesse but also there are apparently 1400 earthquakes daily around the world. Of course some are so small that they don't get reported or maybe they were that small that some people dont even notice. Places like California can have an earthquake any day (well if you think about it, anyplace could!) I live on the East Coast and back in August we experienced a 5.8 magnitude earthquake that I actually did not feel because I was driving at the time but people here were freaking out about it. I got worried but I wasnt panicking too much but if I had actually felt it I do believe I would've freaked out too. But I have a friend who lives here but is from Los Angeles and he did not worry one bit. He said he is so used to them and that in schools on the West Coast they even have earthquake drills because it is a common occurance. I am not sure where you live or are from Jesse. So is it possible that it could be a sign that the world is ending? maybe. But earthquakes happen all over the world everyday, some stronger than others. The reason why we hear more about it now has to do with technology. But I'm no expert and I dont know when the world will end, only God knows. I just am stating the facts about earthquakes and what I know about their occurances.
      • ann 6 mths ago
        It is you because on average the number of earthquakes have not changed. You and everyone else is just more aware because of the 24/7 news cycle. You can hear about something on the other side of the world within minutes when 100 years ago you might not hear about it for weeks/months if ever. That short lag time makes events feel more important.
      • M9 6 mths ago
        Its Owebamas fault (line)
    • LaFeria  •  6 mths ago
      ....Pole Shift might be too drastic unless something REALLY big has entered the Solar System...i.e. notice HOW close asteroid YU55 flew by AND YET NO LIVE FEED - NO VIDEO, NO POST-MORTEM, no money raising HYPE....strange they did not make more out of it that a 'grainy' blurp.....hmhmhmhm......could be Post Glacial Rebound!!!! the earthquakes are definitely tied to increase of VOLCANIC activity, methane levels + Nuclear instability, CME - Solar Flare activity, a weakening Ionosphere & Magnetosphere...
      • Al 6 mths ago
        Koo Koo
    • A  •  Sioux Falls, United States  •  6 mths ago
      Regardless of all the arguing, can't we all just be glad that everyone was okay?
      • Willy Nilly 6 mths ago
        OK today maybe. But the Bible says that in our time, many will die by the hand of God, as did those in Noah's time.
      • PatrickG 6 mths ago
        Go away, Willy.
      • Willy Nilly 6 mths ago
        No I'll stay. Atheists are goners though.
    • Leliu  •  6 mths ago
      We have a lot of earthquakes in Hawaii, but Jesse is right. We are having a lot of volcanic activity world wide.
    • T-Rock  •  Cincinnati, United States  •  6 mths ago
      So far in 2011 there have been 17 7.0 or above quakes, and 24 6.5 - 7.0+. In 2002, there were 10 7.0 or above, and only 4 in the 6.5 - 7.0+ range. The frequency of earthquakes has remained fairly constant in that timeframe, but the intensity has been increasing. According to some of the research on the subject, the earth has gone through many of these cycles in the past that are also in conjunction with volcanic eruption cycles as well. Maybe this is the lead up to one the world's super volcanoes erupting and that could set us back few thousand years, if we recovered at all. No use worrying about it. Just enjoy today, plan for tomorrow, and adjust to whatever, if anything happens.
    • Shay  •  Memphis, United States  •  6 mths ago
      3.7 quake hit South Dakota about 30 mins ago......
    • DITTO  •  6 mths ago
      Once again, let me remind you all of a man named JESUS and qoute him from 2000 years ago when he said," AND THERE SHALL BE EARTHQUAKES AND FLOODS IN DIVERSE PLACES,WARS AND RUMORS OF WARS."
      So now lets just do a quick recap. Wars currently going on in IRAQ, AFGHANISTAN, and now the rumor of a war between Israel and Iran. And for the past seven years ago, starting with the big one in Indonesia that killed 230,000 people with the Tsunami. EARTHQUAKES have been a regular occurance and in the news almost daily.

      What else can you say but JESUS GOT IT RIGHT!! Which means what? It means that JESUS knew what he was talking about. Which means that he has insight that the rest of us don't. Now does that mean that his insight is of a DIVINE NATURE as he says it is? HHHHHUUUUUMMMMM? Well now, since he has been proven to be right about everything else as witnessed by these current acts of NATURE that are undeniable. I would have to say that he is correct about the DIVINE NATURE OF HIS KNOWLEDGE ALSO. I mean wouldn't it just make seance? But then again I'M NOT A KNOW IT ALL SELF RIGHTEOUS ATHEIST THAT WOULD BE SO ARROGANT AS TO ATTEMPT TO MAKE THE ASSERTION THAT I KNOW MORE THAN GOD BY PROCLAIMING THAT GOD DOESN'T EXIST.

      YOU SEE 600 YEARS AGO IT WAS THE GENERAL CONSENSUS OF THE KNOWN WORLD THAT THE EARTH WAS FLAT. BUT JUST BECAUSE THAT WAS THE PREVAILING AND OR "POPULAR" VIEW AT THAT TIME IN HISTORY, DIDN'T MAKE THAT IDEA CORRECT EITHER.

      JUST GIVE THIS SOME DEEP THOUGHT AND I AM SURE YOU'LL HAVE TO AGREE THAT JESUS IS EXACTLY WHO AND WHAT HE SAID HE IS AND DID EXACTLY WHAT HE SAID HE DID AND YOU TOO WILL JOIN ME IN SAYING PRAISE BE TO JESUS CHRIST FOR EVER AND EVER. AMEN.
    • Silence Dogood  •  Los Angeles, United States  •  6 mths ago
      There's been an earthquake every day for the past two weeks, and yet this is still the beginning of the birth pains.
    • Judith  •  Los Angeles, United States  •  6 mths ago
      1976 - a strong quake once every year or two. 2011 - a strong quake every week or two. It's as easy to research as going to your local library and picking any dozen or so newspapers at random from that decade and looking at them. Trouble is, many people who come on here don't have the brains or attention spans to remember the quake in Turkey last week, talk about having the focus to look up something that happened three decades ago....
    • Janice Gray  •  Fort Smith, United States  •  6 mths ago
      Im not athiest, I am a strong Christian and have faith in our Lord. But, I do know that everyone likes to predict the end,, even the myans with the end of the calendar in 2012. What i DO know, is it says in the bible... there will be false prophets and prophesies. Wars, rumors of war, earthquakes and natural disasters have been repeating themselves for thousands of years. Read your bible people, there were wars before Christ and many many since... with huge devastation of life. NOBODY, not even Christ himself or the Angels know the day, time or hour he will return. No matter how much we like to speculate what is going on.... again its trying to prophesy the end. It may not happen in our time, and Im 48. We cant sit around and speculate or worry about it. Live our lives in goodness and take care of yourself, your family and be a good person. For this lady, Im gona live my life honestly, worry about my family and friends and not worry about it. I cant,, because NOBODY KNOWS not even our creator, who is much greater than you or I. Earthquakes are happening, yes, growing pains.. maybe, shifting of poles,, maybe..... or maybe its just natural fault lines shifting, the plates that is. In Arkansas and Oklahoma, we have the Madrid.
    • sally  •  Makati City, Philippines  •  6 mths ago
      I hope the world reads the Scriptures so fear will at least be controlled. Knowledge is life and life is God! Ask the Holy Spirit to guide us all!
    • Oni Levi  •  Tel Aviv, Israel  •  6 mths ago
      birthpains... read matthew ..also revelations.
    • usodumb  •  6 mths ago
      bummer mans still alive huh ?
    • terryt  •  Dunkirk, United States  •  6 mths ago
      Well,if it were Me ,I would rather be wrong on high ground than right by the bay
    • Samantha  •  Cleveland, United States  •  6 mths ago
      it's too late to fix things.
    • porpoiseboy  •  6 mths ago
      always a good rule of thumb that is you are anywhere sea level and a decently felt earthquake hits....get to higher ground. i wouldn't call it panic...i would call it good sense. now when a large earthquake hits, the shoreline disappears to about a mile out, and people run out where water USED TO BE....that is "natural selection".
    • Matt  •  6 mths ago
      i feel the earth move, under my feet -- martika
    • David  •  Kansas City, United States  •  6 mths ago
      Resist the globalists that will use the coming disasters to further their own agenda.
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