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NEW DELHI - A STRONG earthquake shook India's Andaman and Nicobar Islands but no tsunami alert was issued, the Indian National Centre for Ocean Information Services said on Friday. 'The magnitude is 6.3 and it's centred in the Andaman Islands,' Mr Srinivas Kumar, an official at the centre, told Reuters.
'We have not issued any tsunami warning so far and there is no need for widespread evacuation required because it's 6.3. We are studying the situation.'
The US Geological Survey reported it was a 6.7 magnitude earthquake, centered 71 miles (114 km) southwest of Port Blair, in the Andaman Islands, and was 21.7 miles (35 km) deep.
Hundreds of people were out on the roads in Port Blair, officials and witnesses said.
People ran out of their houses and telephone lines were jammed, they said.
Police were asking people not to panic and return to their homes. -- REUTERS
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