YOGYAKARTA, Indonesia - A powerful earthquake rocked Indonesia's Central Java province early Saturday, killing at least 46 people and flattening buildings, authorities and state media said. Scores were injured.The magnitude 6.2 quake also triggered heightened activity in the region's deadly Mount Merapi volcano, which has been spewing out clouds of hot ash, gas and lava for several weeks, a scientist said. The quake struck at 5:54 a.m. 15 miles southwest of the city of Yogyakarta, causing damage and casualties there and in at least two other nearby population centers, officials said.
At the city's Sardjito hospital, there were at least 36 dead bodies, a staffer at the morgue said. At least 10 corpses were laying in Bethseda hospital, state news agency Antara quoted the hospital director as saying.