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No threat of widespread tsunami after quake: US center

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WASHINGTON (AFP) - The US National Weather Service said on Thursday there was no threat of a destructive, widespread tsunami after a strong earthquake was registered in Indonesia.

"No destructive widespread tsunami threat exists based on historical earthquake and tsunami data," said the weather service's Pacific Tsunami Warning Center in a bulletin issued after the quake.

But it said earthquakes of this magnitude "sometimes generate local tsunamis that can be destructive along coasts located within a hundred kilometers (62 miles) of the earthquake epicenter."

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