A powerful earthquake jolted western Indonesia early Tuesday, killing a boy and sending panicked residents fleeing from homes, hotels and even a hospital. The magnitude-6.6 quake hit about 1 a.m. (1800 GMT Monday), waking people in towns and villages across Sumatra island’s northern tip. It was centered 100 kilometres southwest of the city of Medan and 110 kilometres beneath the earth’s crust, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. It was too far inland to generate a tsunami.
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