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Video footage on social media showed residents fleeing to higher ground on motorcycles, a child trapped in the rubble and people trying to remove the rubble with their hands.
A 5.9 magnitude earthquake struck the same area hours earlier on Thursday, damaging several homes.
The Disaster Mitigation Agency said a series of earthquakes occurred over the past 24 hours and caused at least 3 landslides and cut off electricity supplies.
Indonesia is located in an area of seismic activity known as the Ring of Fire.
In 2018, thousands were killed in a devastating 6.2 magnitude earthquake that triggered a tsunami in Palu, Sulawesi.
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The epicenter of the earthquake was 6 km northeast of the city of Magene, at a depth of 10 km.
Initial information released by the agency showed that 4 people were killed and 637 injured in Mageni, but there are another 3 deaths and 24 injuries in the neighboring Mamuju district.
Thousands of people fled their homes when the earthquake struck shortly after 1 a.m. local time, the agency said, and at least 60 homes were damaged.
Residents felt the earthquake with great force for about 7 seconds, but the earthquake did not trigger a tsunami warning.
Video footage on social media showed residents fleeing to higher ground on motorcycles, a child trapped in the rubble and people trying to remove the rubble with their hands.
A 5.9 magnitude earthquake struck the same area hours earlier on Thursday, damaging several homes.
The Disaster Mitigation Agency said a series of earthquakes occurred over the past 24 hours and caused at least 3 landslides and cut off electricity supplies.
Indonesia is located in an area of seismic activity known as the Ring of Fire.
In 2018, thousands were killed in a devastating 6.2 magnitude earthquake that triggered a tsunami in Palu, Sulawesi.
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