JAKARTA: A strong earthquake rattled Indonesia's Sumatra island yesterday, where thousands had fled to high ground a day earlier after another powerful temblor triggered unfounded fears of a tsunami.
Seismologists in Hong Kong said the 6.1-magnitude quake's epicentre was about 270km south-west of Medan in western Sumatra.
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