Tsunami Redux

Another tsunami in the making! This major quake occured at 16:00GMT today. Hopefully the word got out this time along the coast of the last Sri Lankan devistation. So far as of the time of this post there has not been any word of any major casualites.

Story unfolding...

I can just visualize all the mainstream media anchors falling over themselved packing up their bags in Pinellas county Fla and heading for the nearest airport bound for the Indian Ocean. -- zzb

JAKARTA (Reuters) - A massive 8.7 magnitude earthquake hit a small island off Indonesia's Sumatra late on Monday, killing dozens of people, but fears across Asia of another huge tsunami soon receded, residents and officials said.

The epicenter was very close to that of the Dec. 26 quake which triggered a tsunami that left nearly 300,000 people dead or missing across Asia. More...