A powerful earthquake rattled northeastern Indonesia on Thursday, briefly triggering a tsunami alert and sending panicked residents fleeing from homes and buildings, officials said.The quake had a preliminary magnitude 6.6 and struck 55 miles beneath the Molucca Sea, the US Geological Survey.Indonesia's seismological agency put the magnitude at 7.6 and immediately issued a tsunami alert over the radio and television.
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