Quake strikes in Indian Ocean; no tsunami threat

Quake strikes in Indian Ocean; no tsunami threat

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[Posted at 1:24 p.m.] An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 6.4 has struck near the Andaman Islands, in the Indian Ocean, on Tuesday, the U.S. Geological Survey said.

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Is it me, or are earthquakes popping up everywhere and more frequently nowadays? I mean, Chile has had loads of them, and the aftershocks just keep on comin'.
Now i know earthquakes are frequent, and the link to the story says there's no tsunami threat, but makes you wonder... after the 2004 tragedy, and these more powerful quakes happening, it makes you wonder :s



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Seems that it was far away not to cause any major damage.

How strange that very few area's arent showing this, not even Yahoo.

Must be because anything below a 7.0 is no longer of significance.

Fox

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Yeah, with the magnitude of some of those Chile Earthquakes, unders 7's aren't getting the attention they need