JAKARTA, Indonesia - Powerful Quake Rocks Indonesian Island

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JAKARTA, Indonesia - Powerful Quake Rocks Indonesian Island
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By LELY T. DJUHARI, Associated Press Writer

JAKARTA, Indonesia - A powerful earthquake rocked parts of Indonesia's Sulawesi Island on Monday, damaging houses and triggering widespread but unfounded fears of another tsunami in a country still traumatized by last month's disaster. No injuries were reported.

The epicenter of the 6.2-magnitude quake was in central Sulawesi, about 10 miles southwest of the seaside city of Palu, said Suharjono, a seismologist in Jakarta.
It struck just before dawn.

'It was very strong. I felt the bed and the ground shaking and rushed out of my house. I saw everyone panicking,' said Huwal Hayun, a 19-year-old student in Palu. Around 30 houses and shops in Palu, which is home to some 270,000 people, suffered minor damage, police said.

The temblor occurred a month after a massive earthquake shook the island of Sumatra, triggering a tsunami that killed more than 160,000 people in 11 countries. Sumatra is thousands of miles west of Sulawesi. "