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Tsunami alert issued as 7.9 quake strikes near Philippines

   
  

Added At:  2012-08-31 7:36 PM

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A sailing race is held in the seas off the Philippines city of Sulangan in 1999. A major 7.9 earthquake hit the sea area east of the Philippines on Friday and a tsunami warning was issued for the Philippines, Indonesia, Taiwan and Japan, US seismologists said. The USGS said the quake had a depth of 33 kilometres (20 miles) and hit at 8:47 pm (1247 GMT) some 139 kilometres east of Sulangan

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The warning center said any wave generated by the quake would be expected to hit Indonesia first‚ at 1335 GMT.

SULANGAN: A major 7.9 earthquake hit the sea area east of the Philippines on Friday and a tsunami warning was issued for the archipelago, Indonesia, Taiwan and Japan, US seismologists said.

The US Geological Survey said the quake had a depth of 34 kilometres (21 miles) and hit at 8:47 pm (1247 GMT) some 139 kilometres east of the city of Sulangan, eastern Samar.

A tsunami warning was also issued for Papua New Guinea and Guam, and a tsunami watch was in effect for the Solomon Islands, Marshall Islands and Nauru, the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center said in a bulletin.

The warning center said any wave generated by the quake would be expected to hit Indonesia first, at 1335 GMT.

It would then be due to hit the Philippines at 1338 GMT.

"An earthquake of this size has the potential to generate a destructive tsunami that can strike coastlines in the region near the epicentre within minutes to hours," the center said.

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