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No risk of tsunami after northern Australia shaken by magnitude-7.6 Indonesia earthquake

The Bureau of Meteorology (BOM) says there is no risk of a tsunami to Australia after people across the north of the country were awoken by a magnitude-7.6 earthquake in waters off Indonesia overnight.

At 3:17am ACST on Tuesday, the undersea earthquake struck near the Tanimbar Islands, about 600 kilometres north of Darwin. 

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