
JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) - Indonesia's geological agency says a powerful earthquake in the country's northeast has triggered a tsunami alert. The agency says Thursday's quake has a preliminary magnitude of 7.6. But the U.S. Geological Survey puts the preliminary magnitude at 6.6. It struck six miles beneath the Molucca Sea and was centered 75 miles from the Maluku capital of Ternate. The Indonesian agency has issued a tsunami alert after the temblor. (Copyright 2008 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)
