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THE JAKARTA POST

- QUAKE RATTLES WESTERN SUMATRA

Residents of Bengkulu and West Sumatra provinces fled in panic late on Thursday following a powerful earthquake, measuring 7.9 on the Richter scale. An official tsunami alert by the country's Meteorology Agency was issued, but was lifted two hours after the quake.

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