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Earthquake Magnitude 8.0 : Samoa Islands Region

Date           Tuesday, September 29, 2009 at 17:48:11 UTC
Location     15.558°S, 172.073°W
Depth         18 km (11.2 miles) set by location program
Region        Samoa Islands Region
Distances  185 km (115 miles) ENE of Hihifo, Tonga
                  195 km (125 miles) S of APIA, Samoa
                  705 km (435 miles) NNE of NUKU'ALOFA, Tonga
                  2700 km (1670 miles) NNE of Auckland, New Zealand

Washington/Tokyo - A tsunami watch was cancelled Monday for South and Southeast Asia after an earthquake measuring 7.6 on the Richter Scale struck in the Indian Ocean.

The earthquake was centred about 262 kilometres north of India's Andaman Islands and took place at 1956 GMT, the US Geological Survey (USGS) in Denver, Colorado, reported. It struck in the early Tuesday morning hours local time and was 30 kilometres below the earth's surface.

The Pacific tsunami Warning Centre in Hawaii issued a tsunami watch for Bangladesh, India, Indonesia, Myanmar and Thailand, saying the earthquake was strong enough to produce a tsunami along coastlines within 1,000 kilometres of its epicentre.

However, it cancelled the warning a few hours later "as sea levels indicated that a significant tsunami was not generated."//DPA

source: Nation

I just found my backup DVD and recovered a ton of pictures inside. One of my deep memory album is on the day the we (all local surfers) sell club t-shirts and donated all income to Kalim and Kamala schools to help them re-build the school (after destroy by Tsunami on 26 Dec '04).

Please check Club Donate Photo Album for the pictures.