A powerful under-sea earthquake in Indonesia on Monday killing one person and leaving many injured.
According to officials, at least twenty people were hospitalized with broken bones and at least 80 sustained minor injuries. It was believed that two people had been killed by the tremor but the number was reduced to one. The man who was killed after being hit by falling debris and died after being treated in hospital for seven hours.
The quake struck Felt Island at 3:41 am with a magnitude of 6.7. The quake entered at about 830 miles from the Indonesian capital, Jakarta, at a depth of 11 miles below water level. A Tsunami warning was not issued as the quake was too deep to cause a destructive tsunami.
The quake damaged at least 720 homes, seven government buildings and blocked a main road.
The quake hit at a bad time after the people are still clearing the rubble of a quake that hit in September and killed 1,100 people.

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