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Hawaii gets 6.3 magnitude quake; no tsunami alert

15 Oct 2006 18:40:48 GMT
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SAN FRANCISCO, Oct 15 (Reuters) - A 6.3 magnitude earthquake struck off Hawaii on Sunday morning, with shaking and power outages felt as far as 150 miles (240 km) away on the island of Oahu, but no tsunami warnings were in effect.

The U.S. Geological Survey said the area was hit by a series of quakes, the strongest of which registered a magnitude of 6.3.

"There is no tsunami warning in place," said Victor Sardina, a geophysicist at the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center said.

"We had a power supply outage and we're running on power backup," Sardina said by telephone. "This whole area was shaken up. It was pretty strong shaking."

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