WASHINGTON, April 15 (Reuters) - A magnitude-6.6 quake struck off Indonesia's Sumatra island, the U.S. Geological Survey reported on Wednesday. The quake, quite shallow at a depth of 26.6 miles (42 km), struck 130 miles (209 km) northwest of the Sumatra town of Bengkulu at 3:01 a.m. on Thursday (2001 GMT on Wednesday). It followed a magnitude-5.5 earthquake in the same area two and a half hours earlier. The quakes, at least 620 miles (1,000 km) south of the devastating 2005 Sumatra tsunami, did not trigger a tsunami warning but could cause small local waves, USGS geophysicist John Bellini said.(Reporting by Sandra Maler; Editing by Doina Chiacu)
Rubble covers the interior of the medieval Santa Maria of Collemaggio Basilica, a week after an earthquake, in L'Aquila April 13, 2009. The bones of the 13th-century Pope Celestine V were ...
