Strong quake shakes India's tsunami-hit Andamans
Posted on: Sunday, 24 July 2005, 12:08 CDT
PORT BLAIR, India (Reuters) - A strong earthquake of 7.2 magnitude shook India's Andaman and Nicobar islands on Sunday causing residents of the region to run from their homes, but there were no early reports of casualties or damage, police said.
"The quake was felt in all the islands of the Andaman and Nicobar chain," a police official told Reuters, referring to the more than 550 islands in the remote Indian Ocean archipelago that was devastated by last year's tsunami.
In the capital Port Blair, hundreds of people ran out of their homes in panic and rushed to open places. On Dec. 26 2004, hundreds of people were killed in the island chain during the tsunami and thousands are still missing and presumed dead.
Source: REUTERS
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