Lifting the state of preparedness in the Indian Ocean tsunami

The total tsunami, announced after the earthquakes grand off the coast of Indonesia's Aceh province has now been canceled, to warn of the tsunami, the Pacific Centre (PWTC) hours says.Two after earthquakes - one with a magnitude of 8.6, and the other measuring 8.3 - the center and say: "The threat has diminished or ended for most areas. " Alerts and caused panic as people fled buildings, which provide for high ground.There were no immediate reports of damage or casualties.India, and raised Thailand and Sri Lanka also have their own tsunami warnings. Usually subjected to earthquakes in the region. Kill the Indian Ocean tsunami in 2004, 170,000 people in Aceh alone, about 250,000 across the region."Vigilant"And the United States Geological Survey, which documents the earthquakes in all parts of the world, said the quake's epicenter Aceh for the first time in a depth of 33km (20 miles), about 495km from Banda Aceh, and initially reported capital.It provinces as 8.9 degrees, but later revised down to 8.6 by the U.S. Geological Survey. Officials said the quake had generated a tsunami, and was heading to the coast of Aceh.BBC's Karishma Vaswani in Jakarta says: There have been reports of ground shaking for up to five alert PTWC minutes.A said that Sea level readings indicate a tsunami was generated, and that he "had already been destructive along coasts some" without specifying where and said Thai official in the disaster that was recorded 10cm wave on the island of Koh Miang, off Nga.Earlier Fang, said Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono said the authorities remaining "vigilant", although there are no reports of tsunami.Renewed PTWC our alarm works well, and I have ordered the rescue team to the national airline directly to Aceh to ensure the situation is under control, and to take any necessary action, "he said.A few hours later, after the warning hit the aftershock large measuring 8.2 16km (10 miles) beneath the ocean floor and 615km from the correspondent of AFP Aceh.An Banda Aceh in Banda said the aftershock 2 took four minutes.PTWC issues an advisory alerts throughout the region, which can be used by state authorities to issue special procedures for emergency situations. Indonesia is located on the Ring of Fire in the Pacific, a region of great seismic activity.'Minutes of chaos. "Sutopo A spokesman for the agency disaster in Indonesia, mitigation, and he was cut off electricity in the province of Aceh, and there were traffic jams to reach the highest ground.Sirens and weddings of mosques everywhere, "said the hair Reuters.Tremors as far away as Singapore, Thailand, Sri Lanka and Malaysia and Bangladesh and India. The French island of Reunion also alert.Along the east coast of Africa, Kenya, Tanzania issued warnings of tsunami own. There was an earthquake felt by each and every one of us working in the building, "said a man named Vincent in Calcutta, India, BBC.All ran just to get out of the building and asked people not to use the elevator. There was a minute of chaos where it all began ringing up to ask about their families and their well-being. "Sirens of the tsunami, which was established in many areas at risk after the disaster of 2004, and heard in Phuket, Thailand, where reporters that the people and said evacuation routes following quietly to Musson zones.Roger safe, and earthquakes of the British Geological Survey, earthquakes, and unlike those that appeared off Indonesia in recent years, where he had paid the ground under the continental plate, "flipping up" in seabed.It It seems that the occurrence of a major earthquake in the Indian Plate and the plate was broken in a kind of brutal way, "he said.It is a kind of earthquake rupture, and this is much less likely to cause a tsunami because it is not the displacement of large quantities of water.