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(AP) A powerful
earthquake rocked eastern Indonesia on Thursday, sending residents
fleeing from swaying homes and hospitals, authorities and witnesses
said.

The quake, which had a magnitude of 6.9, triggered a
tsunami warning. But the alert was quickly lifted after it became
clear no destructive waves had been generated, the country's
geophysics agency said.

In the city of Manado, people fled
from markets, hospitals and schools, witnesses said. One woman ran
from the second floor of a hospital carrying her son, who had an IV
drip in his arm.

"What's going on? What's going on?" she
screamed before being calmed by other people.

The earthquake
struck under the Maluku Sea at a depth of 20 miles, the U.S.
Geological Survey said on its Web site. The quake's epicenter was
more than 130 miles north of Ternate island.

"We felt a
strong tremor for almost a minute, people ran in panic from
buildings," said George Rajaloa, a resident in Ternate. "Children
are crying and their mothers are screaming, but there is no damage
in my area."

The U.S. Geological Survey initially put the
quake at 7.0 magnitude, but later lowered it to 6.9.

Indonesia, the world's largest archipelago, is prone to
seismic upheaval due to its location on the so-called Pacific "Ring
of Fire," an arc of volcanoes and fault lines encircling the Pacific
Basin.

In December 2004, a massive earthquake struck off
Sumatra island and triggered a tsunami that killed more than 230,000
people in a dozen countries, including 160,000 people in Indonesia's
westernmost province of Aceh.

Just over a year ago, another
quake-generated tsunami killed around 600 people on the island of
Java.

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