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Tue, 08/12/2008 - 14:17
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EARTHQUAKE SHAKES MANOKWARI ON TUESDAY

Jakarta, Aug 12 (ANTARA) - An earthquake measuring 5.5 on the Richter scale shook Manokwari, West Papua, on Tuesday, at 2.07 am Western Indonesian Time (WIB), but did not trigger a tsunami.

The earthquake's epicenter was located at 0.22 degrees southern latitude and 133.02 degrees eastern longitude, at a depth of 30 km below sea level, around 136 km northwest of Manokwari, according to information from the national meteorological and geophysics office here on Tuesday.

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