Earthquake hit central Indonesia

Jakarta : A powerful earthquake hit central Indonesia on Friday, causing a tsunami that slammed into a city on Sulawesi island with officials saying the tremor had levelled many buildings.
The shallow 7.5 magnitude quake sparked terror among locals who fled into the streets and raced to higher ground fearing tsunami waves. The disaster agency briefly issued a tsunami warning before lifting it. Palu, a city of 350,000 nearly 80 kilometres from the quake's epicentre, showed a churning wall of whitewater mow down several buildings and inundate a large mosque. People living hundreds of kilometres from the epicentre reported feeling the massive shake, hours after a smaller jolt killed at least one person in the same part of the Southeast Asian archipelago.