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JAKARTA, Indonesia – A series of powerful earthquakes in remote eastern Indonesia cut power lines, cracked building walls and sent panicked residents running out of their homes Sunday, officials and witnesses said.
Indonesia was hit by an offshore earthquake of magnitude 7.8, the U.S. Geological Survey said in an e-mailed alert. The temblor hit near the north coast of Papua.