Penang seaside spots cleared for fear of tsunami


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  • Thursday, 13 Sep 2007

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    PENANG: Gurney Drive and the Esplanade here were cleared of people as soon as police received the Meteorological Department’s tsunami alert after the 8.2-magnitude earthquake in southern Sumatra last evening. 

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