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Strong earthquake hits

East Africa

Monday, December 5, 2005;

Posted: 8:37 a.m. EST (13:37 GMT)

 

NAIROBI, Kenya (Reuters) -- A

strong earthquake hit East Africa on Monday in the Lake Tanganyika region, the

U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) said on its web site.

The USGS said the 6.8 magnitude quake struck at 1219 GMT in a region it named as

Congo-Tanzania and placed it 55 km southeast of the town of Kalemie in the Democratic

Republic of Congo.

Hundreds of people evacuated office buildings in the centre

of Nairobi after the earth shook and waited for any information about what

was going on.

The quake was also felt in the Rwandan capital Kigali, which lies directly

north on a USGS map.

http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/africa/12/05/quake.eafrica.reut/index.html

 

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