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3 killed as powerful quake jolts Indonesia
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September 7, 2011, Wednesday
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A POWERFUL earthquake jolted western Indonesia early yesterday, killing three people, damaging buildings and sending panicked residents fleeing from homes, hotels and even a hospital.
The magnitude-6.6 quake hit about 1am, waking people in towns and villages across Sumatra island's northern tip.
It was centered 100 kilometers southwest of the city of Medan and 110km beneath the earth's crust, according to the United States Geological Survey. It was too far inland to generate a tsunami.
Maura Sakti, a mayor in Subulussalam, told local station TVOne a 12-year-old boy had been killed. At least one other person was injured.
Boby Sigit, an official at the National Disaster Management, said later that two people were killed in Aceh - the boy and a 60-year-old man - while a 26-year-old mother died in Dairi district of North Sumatra. The boy and woman were killed by falling rubble and stones, while the man's cause of death was not clear.
About 50 houses, along with a number of mosques, churches and hospitals, were damaged by the earthquake, and more than 250 shops and kiosks caught fire, due to power problems, the disaster agency said.
Hundreds of people were evacuated to temporary shelters as authorities surveyed the damage, said Helmy Kesuma, police chief in the hard-hit town of Singkil.
Some electricity poles were knocked down there, crashing into homes and causing blackouts.
Indonesia straddles a series of fault lines that makes the vast island nation prone to volcanic and seismic activity.
The magnitude-6.6 quake hit about 1am, waking people in towns and villages across Sumatra island's northern tip.
It was centered 100 kilometers southwest of the city of Medan and 110km beneath the earth's crust, according to the United States Geological Survey. It was too far inland to generate a tsunami.
Maura Sakti, a mayor in Subulussalam, told local station TVOne a 12-year-old boy had been killed. At least one other person was injured.
Boby Sigit, an official at the National Disaster Management, said later that two people were killed in Aceh - the boy and a 60-year-old man - while a 26-year-old mother died in Dairi district of North Sumatra. The boy and woman were killed by falling rubble and stones, while the man's cause of death was not clear.
About 50 houses, along with a number of mosques, churches and hospitals, were damaged by the earthquake, and more than 250 shops and kiosks caught fire, due to power problems, the disaster agency said.
Hundreds of people were evacuated to temporary shelters as authorities surveyed the damage, said Helmy Kesuma, police chief in the hard-hit town of Singkil.
Some electricity poles were knocked down there, crashing into homes and causing blackouts.
Indonesia straddles a series of fault lines that makes the vast island nation prone to volcanic and seismic activity.
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