PADANG, Indonesia (AFP) — A 6.5-magnitude earthquake hit off the Indonesian island of Sumatra early Thursday, US seismologists said, but there were no initial reports of casualties or damage and no tsunami alert was issued. Many people were woken by the quake around dawn and ran out of their homes in Padang, about 140 kilometers (90 miles) from the epicentre, an AFP journalist in the city said. The quake took place at 5:56 am local […]





