A second powerful earthquake in as many days jolted Southeast Asia and triggered a regional tsunami warning today, damaging hundreds of buildings along Indonesia’s western coast and sending panicked residents fleeing inland.

A massive earthquake killed at least 10 people, injured scores and triggered a small tsunami in western Indonesia today, authorities said.

A Japanese tanker may have spilled more than 4,500 tons (31,500 barrels) of crude oil in the eastern Indian Ocean near the Nicobar islands following a collision with a cargo ship, the tanker’s operator announced today.

A strong earthquake of magnitude 7.2 hit India’s southern Nicobar Islands today.

A 7.2 magnitude earthquake has hit India's Nicobar Islands today, the Press Trust of India news agency reported.

Panic briefly spread through the streets of Madras after residents felt the shocks of an earthquake off the coast of the remote Andaman islands.

Indonesia pulled 7,118 new bodies from the rubble near a shattered beachfront community visited today by UN Secretary General Kofi Annan, bringing the confirmed overall death toll from the Asian tsunami to nearly 150,000.

Members of the ancient Jarawa tribe emerged from their forest habitat for the first time since the tsunami and earthquakes devastated India’s isolated Andaman and Nicobar Islands, and said all 250 had survived.

THE Indian government yesterday halted the mass evacuation of island survivors whose homes were smashed by tsunamis, focusing instead on bringing relief directly to the victims as demanded by aid groups.

WHILE the walls of water that devoured Asian shorelines served as reminders of the fragility of life, fresh crops of survivors became a testament to its resilience yesterday.

Rescuers were today ready to give up hope of finding more survivors in Indonesia’s shattered Sumatra island, one week after tsunamis wrought death and destruction on a massive scale across Asia.

The known death toll from Asia’s earthquake and tsunami catastrophe passed 124,000 today as a deluge from the skies added to the misery in many of the affected nations.

The huge world relief drive to shelter, treat and feed millions of survivors of the Indian Ocean tsunamis finally kicked in today as the death toll passed 121,000 and was still climbing.

World aid donations reached nearly €396m today as the Asian tsunami death toll soared to at least 120,000, but United Nations supremo Kofi Annan warned even more would be needed.

Even as the people of the isolated Andaman and Nicobar islands told harrowing tales of fending off starvation and hungry crocodiles thrown ashore by the towering tsunami, they vowed today to go back to their tiny islands and start all over again.

A schoolteacher today gave up his Christmas holidays to help the survivors of the tsumani in Asia.

Rescuers followed the stench of death to find rotting bodies in jungles on India’s remote Andaman and Nicobar islands, where thousands are believed to have died, while people fled their homes today amid warnings of possible new tsunamis following fresh quakes.

THE death toll from the tsunami disaster doubled again yesterday, soaring towards the 100,000 mark.

THE United Nations last night began to mobilise what it called the biggest relief operation in its history to cope with the disaster caused by one of the worst tsunamis in history.

Paramedics today began vaccinating more than 65,000 refugees in the south of India as authorities rushed aid to survivors of the tsunami that killed at least 4,400 people in India and left 8,000 missing, many of them feared dead, officials said.

AS rotting bodies stack up and contaminate water supplies across Asia, fears grew that sickness will pile more misery on a region reeling two days on from its worst disaster in living memory.

RESCUE workers pulled corpses from canals and water-logged fields in India yesterday as the government warned the death toll of almost 9,400 from a tsunami that lashed the country’s south would rise further.

ONE of the largest earthquakes yet to strike the planet sent huge tidal waves tearing into countries across Asia.

MORE THAN 11,500 people were killed in seven countries as tidal waves from a massive undersea earthquake smashed into coastlines across Asia yesterday.