USGS : LARGE (RED) 6.0 MAGNITUDE QUAKE JUST HIT SUMATRA, INDONESIA IN THE RING OF FIRE REGION ABUTTING THE PACIFIC TECTONIC PLATE

MAP 6.0 2011/08/22 20:12:21 -6.410 103.985 31.3 SOUTHWEST OF SUMATRA, INDONESIA - LARGE 6.0 MAGNITUDE EARTHQUAKE JUST HIT IN THE RING OF FIRE , THINK VOLCANISM & TSUNAMIS WITH LARGE QUAKES IN THE RING OF FIRE AND THOSE POINTS AROUND THE PACIFIC TECTONIC PLATE

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Students narrowly escape death by fleeing erupting Indonesian ...

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... in the south island of Sumatra, Indonesia, on Wednesday, August 3. ... It took the group six hours to climb the steep volcano, through thick forest and ...

Chile’s Puyehue Cordón Caulle Volcanic Complex Continues To Spew Ash

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Wikipedia | PACIFIC PLATE & RING OF FIRE

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LARGE (RED) 6.5 MAGNITUDE EARTHQUAKE NOW JUST HIT NEAR THE EAST COAST OF HONSHU, JAPAN

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http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/recenteqsww/Maps/10/140_40.php

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LARGE 6.2 MAGNITUDE EARTHQUAKE JUST HIT FIJI REGION

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MAP

6.2

2011/08/19 03:54:28

-16.526

-176.905

413.2

FIJI REGION

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Indonesia, Samoa hit by series of earthquakes - Hundreds feared dead as at least 15 quakes hit two areas along the Pacific Ring of Fire' in 3 days

guardian.co.uk, Thursday 1 October 2009 15.21 BST

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NYTimes | At Least 529 Die as 7.6 magnitude Quake Hits Indonesia Island

Residents walked through an area damaged by the earthquake in Padang, West Sumatra, Indonesia, on Thursday. Dita Alangkara/Associated Press

Every building over three stories in Padang suffered damage from the initial quake, and the city’s three main hospitals all collapsed. At the biggest hopsital, Djamil, beds were pulled from the wreckage to serve the injured.

Padang, a port city of 900,000, is on the west-central coast of Sumatra, Indonesia’s largest island. The western coast is stippled with dozens of volcanoes, and Padang also sits alongside the Sunda Trench, part of the notorious Ring of Fire, the volatile network of volcanic arcs and oceanic trenches that partly encircles the Pacific Basin. The ring — and Sumatra in particular — is a zone of frequent earthquakes and volcanic activity.

Elsewhere in the basin, on Tuesday, an underwater earthquake measuring 8.0 created a tsunami that sent massive walls of water crashing into the islands of Samoa, American Samoa and Tonga.

Reports from government officials, the police, aid workers and news agencies showed Thursday that at least 154 people had been killed by the tsunami — 115 on Samoa, 30 on American Samoa and 9 on Tonga. FULL STORY