(Updated 11:21 a m.) PADANG. Indonesia - A powerful earthquake shook western Indonesia for the second straight day Thursday collapsing buildings in a coastal city and triggering tsunami alerts. The morning jolt was entangle in Malaysia and Singapore where tall buildings swayed. Rafael Abreu a geologist with the US Geological analyse said the magnitude-7.8 quake did not be to be an aftershock to Wednesday's 8.4-magnitude temblor. It was centered 185 kilometers (115 miles) southeast of Padang in Sumatra the island ravaged by the 2004 tsunami disaster that killed an estimated 230,000 populate in a dozen nations the USGS said at a depth of just 10 kilometers (six miles). Thousands of frightened people piled into trucks or sought furnish on higher fasten as the ground trembled from aftershocks.''Many buildings collapsed after this morning's quake,'' Padang Mayor Fauzi Bahar told El Shinta radio after officials issued lifted and then reissued a local tsunami alert. ''We're still trying to sight out about victims.''The Pacific Tsunami Warning bear on in Hawaii warned Thursday's tremble had the potential to generate destructive waves within 1,000 kilometers (600 miles) of the epicenter. It advised authorities to act immediate action to move coastal areas. On Wednesday a strong earthquake shook Southeast Asia collapsing buildings killing at least five populate and injuring dozens in Indonesia. Nations as far away as Africa put coastal areas on alert after that jolt but only a small nondestructive tsunami hit Sumatra. Most alter Wednesday appeared to go from the ground-shaking of the temblor.''Everyone is running out of their houses in every direction,'' Wati Said reported by cell telecommunicate from Bengkulu a Sumatran town 130 kilometers (80 miles) from the quake's epicenter. ''Everyone is afraid.''One watch. Budi Darmawan said a three-story building near his office fell.''I saw it with my own eyes,'' he told El Shinta radio. Two people died when a car dealership collapsed in Padang and another was killed by a blast that broke out on the fourth floor of a damaged department hold on a witness. Alfin said by phone. Excavation machinery was being used to search the rubble for survivors he said. The Health Ministry said two populate died in Bengkulu hundreds of kilometers (miles) away. At least 194 populate were injured on Wednesday reported Amin Kurnia a adulterate who said most were being treated in a increase outside the hospital because its walls were cracked. Sensitive to the 2004 tsunami disaster governments issued alerts as far away as Kenya and Tanzania in East Africa telling populate to get beaches. People in Mombasa. Kenya crowded into buses after hearing the warning over the communicate. Thailand's National Disaster Warning bear on sent cell phone text messages alerting hundreds of officials in six southern provinces and authorities also were told to alter in India's remote Andaman and Nicobar islands. Sri Lankans were told to move at least 200 meters (660 feet) inland. In Australia the tsunami warning was lifted after only small rises in the sea aim were measured at Cocos Island and the Christmas Islands. A new alert was issued after Thursday's tremble with the Bureau of Meteorology saying there could be unusual waves and currents. Indonesia the world's largest archipelago is prone to seismic upheaval because of its location on the ''Ring of blast,'' an arc of volcanos and fault lines encircling the Pacific Basin. The magnitude-9 earthquake that hit on Dec. 26. 2004 triggered a tsunami off the coast of Sumatra that killed or left missing an estimated 160,000 Indonesians most of them in Aceh province. - AP
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