Rescue teams are racing to reach thousands of people trapped under collapsed buildings after an earthquake struck off the Indonesian island of Sumatra . Officials say up to 200 are dead but Siti Fadillah Supari, the Indonesian health minister, said on Thursday that given the widespread damage the number of victims "could be more ... than thousands". The 7.6 magnitude undersea quake hit on Wednesday afternoon, about 50km from the coastal city of Padang with a population of 900,000, which bore the brunt of the temblor. A second quake, with a 6.8 magnitude, struck Sumatra on Thursday morning, about 225km southeast of Padang, according to the US Geological Survey. There have not yet been any reports of deaths or damage from the second quake, but the Indonesian geophysics and meteorology agency said the quake struck near several heavily populated towns. Raphael Abreu, a geophysicist at the national earthquake information centre of the US Geological Survey in Colorado, told Al Jaz
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