Live! Six-metre high waves likely: Tsunami centre

Disclaimer Live! Six-metre high waves likely: Tsunami centre Write a comment April 11, 2012 15:07 Reuters reports that people in the region were making their way to higher ground. The BBC\'s Karishma Vaswani in the Indonesian capital Jakarta says there were reports of the ground shaking for up to five minutes. Indonesia straddles the Pacific Ring of Fire, a zone of major seismic activity. 15:05 Here\'s what people have been saying across India. On Zarabol 15:03 8.7 quake has potential to trigger tsunami: The tsunami centre\'s warning in Indonesia said quakes of such a magnitude \"have the potential to generate a widespread destructive tsunami that can affect coastlines across the entire Indian Ocean basin\". The tremor was felt as far away as Singapore, Thailand and India. Reuters reports that people in the region were making their way to higher ground, reports the bbc. Sri Lanka has also issued a tsunami warning along with Thailand, Singapore and Indonesia. 14:59 6-metre high waves likely: CNN: Metro services in Kolkata have been suspended. Tremors were felt in two phases in Kolkata, lasting a few seconds each CNN says 6-metre high waves are likely. The National Disaster Management Agency says the quake is enough to trigger a tsunami. 14:56 Indonesia quake is 8.7 on the Richter scale, not 8.9: As we pointed out earlier, the quake measures 8.7, according to the USGS. The 8.9 measure was according to Indonesia\'s geophysical agency. On Twitter: Rajiv Menon from Bangalore says that ITPL, Electronic City all evacuated NDTV\'s nitin gokhale says Standard drills activated in entire Andaman Nicobar island chain. At Port Blair, people ran out of their houses, say eyewitnesses. 14:53 To the east of India, tremors were also felt in Thailand, Singapore, Myanmar and Bangladesh. 14:49 Coastal regions of Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh are also put on alert following the Sumatra quake. 14:48 In India, a tsunami warning has been issued in the Andaman and Nicobar islands only, as of now. TV reports say tremors were felt for at least 12 seconds in the islands. 14:46 The USGS says it\'s an 8.7 quake off the coast of northern Sumatra. Here\'s what the USGS site says. Read the details of the earthquake 14:42 Tsunami warning for Australia, Myanmar, Maldives as well. 14:40 Tsunami watch across 28 countries including India: Tremors were felt in two phases in Kolkata, lasting a few seconds each. Tremors were also felt in Chennai, Bangalore, Thiruvananthapuram, Kochi, Patna. As we said earlier, there\'s a tsunami watch across 28 countries including India, Pakistan, UK from Rediff.com