20070913 Indonesia lifts tsunami warning after Sulawesi quake

clipped from www.reuters.com Indonesia's meteorological agency lifted its tsunami warning on Thursday shortly after a strong undersea earthquake hit southeast of Sulawesi island.id=midArticle_byline> The agency put the quake at 6.4 on the Richter scale and at a depth of 30 km (19 miles). Suharjono, an official with the meteorological agency, said a tsunami warning is automatically issued when an undersea quake exceeds a magnitude of 6.2, and that in this particular case, there had been little risk of a tsunami.