JAKARTA, Indonesia — A powerful earthquake jolted the western Indonesian island of Sumatra, killing a 12-year-old boy and sending people streaming from their houses and hotels in panic.

Hundreds of patients from at least one hospital had to be evacuated, some in wheelchairs or with infusion drips still attached to their arms.

The U.S. Geological Survey said the 6.6-magnitude quake was centered 60 miles (100 kilometers) southwest of the city of Medan at a depth of 62 miles (110 kilometers).

It was too far inland, however, to generate a tsuami.

The temblor hit at about 1 a.m. local time Tuesday, rattling people from their sleep in towns and villages across the island's northern tip.

Maura Sakti, a mayor in Subulussalam, told the local station TVOne a 12-year-old boy had been killed.

He had no other details about injuries or damage.

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                                          Indonesia had a tsunami on December 26th,2005; that tsunami injured,killed,or displaced approximately 230,000 people. I hope that this earthquake does not cause the type of mayhem and anarchy the tsunami did. Let's not be languid to the plight of these people.

                          Peace,

                           Justin