Fresh tremor hits India after tidal waves kill 4,000

A fresh tremor hit Indian islands far off the country’s eastern coast today, a day after massive waves triggered by an undersea quake killed an estimated 4,000 people in India.

The tremor at daybreak in the Andaman and Nicobar islands in the Bay of Bengal had a magnitude of 6.0. Details of casualties and damage from the latest quake were not immediately known.

India was trying to recover from the massive waves unleashed the previous day by the 9.0-magnitude quake off Indonesia.

Planes, helicopters and ships delivered food and generators to devastated coastal. As they searched for survivors, military rescue trams warned fisherman not to go out to sea for two more days.

Tamil Nadu state was the worst affected, with waves sweeping away boats, homes and vehicles.

Its beaches resembled open-air mortuaries as fishermen’s bodies washed ashore, and retreating waters left behind others killed inland. At least 200 people died in Tamil Nadu’s capital, Madras, alone.

Residents of Tamil Nadu and Andhra Pradesh state spoke of 12 foot walls of water slamming into the shore.

“I was shocked to see innumerable fishing boats flying on the shoulder of the waves, going back and forth into the sea, as if made of paper,” said P Ramanamurthy, 40.