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Xinhua Asia-Pacific news abstract at 1600 GMT, Aug. 29

JAKARTA — A powerful earthquake with a magnitude of 6.4 hit Indonesia’s western province of West Sumatra on Monday, the meteorology, climatology and geophysics company stated.

The quake jolted at 10:29 Jakarta time with the epicenter at 116 km northwest of Kepulauan Mentawai (Mentawai islands) district and the shallow of 10 km beneath the seabed, the company stated. (Indonesia-Earthquake)

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