Wednesday, April 11, 2012: Nearly four hours after a powerful earthquake struck Indonesia today, India has finally withdrawn the tsunami warning that was generated earlier.A second round of tremors was felt in India in cities like Kolkata and Chennai at 4.25 pm, but there was no tsunami threat from those aftershocks. A tsunami warning for the Nicobar Islands that was downgraded to an alert too has been withdrawn.
Indonesia had issued a new tsunami warning following an aftershock that hovered around 8.2 on the Richter scale. The original earthquake struck Indonesia at 2.08 pm, and first reports said it measured 8.9 on the Richter scale. It spurred warnings of a possible tsunami. The quake was later downgraded to 8.6 magnitude.
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