Urgent: Powerful earthquake jolts western Indonesia, tsunami alert issued


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  • Tuesday, 25 Apr 2023

JAKARTA, April 25 (Xinhua) -- A 7.3-magnitude earthquake struck Indonesia's western province of West Sumatra early Tuesday and has the potential of triggering a tsunami, the meteorology, climatology and geophysics agency said.

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