Jabatan Meteorologi Malaysia
KEMENTERIAN SAINS, TEKNOLOGI DAN INOVASI
Earthquake/Tsunami Alert     ( IDM20024 )
12:40 pagi, 8hb Jan 2009

Our Ref: JMM.APL15/442/19 Jld ( 20e )/ ( 113 )

EARTHQUAKE INFORMATION
Issued by Malaysian Meteorological Department
Ministry of Science, Technology & Innovation
at 12.40 am 08/01/2009


 
 
A strong earthquake has occurred with these revised parameters:
 
Time of Occurrence : 12.25 am on 8 January 2009
 
Coordinates : 20.7 South 178.5 East
 
Location : Fiji Islands Region,286km South of Suva,Fiji. 7151km Southeast of Tawau.
 
Magnitude : 6.0 on Richter scale
 
 
Assessment
 
No tsunami threat
 

 
This will be the final information issued by the department for this event unless there are further developments or additional information becomes available