G.O.G Posted August 6, 2018 Posted August 6, 2018 A strong earthquake rocked the po[CENSORED]r Lombok tourist island in Indonesia on Sunday, leaving at least three people dead and shaking the neighboring island of Bali a week after another earthquake in the same area killed more than a dozen people . The latest earthquake, which briefly sparked a tsunami warning, damaged buildings to distant Denpasar in Bali, including a departmental store and the airport terminal, where roof panels loosened and fell, officials said. . In a video you see people running in panic from houses in a neighborhood of Bali and swinging vehicles. In Lombok, soldiers and other rescue workers carried injured people to an evacuation center on stretchers and rugs. The tremor, with a magnitude of 7.0 according to the United States Geological Survey (USGS), was Sunday afternoon at a depth of 10.5 kilometers (6 miles). A tsunami warning was canceled when waves of only 15 centimeters (6 inches) in height were recorded in three villages, said the director of the Indonesian Agency of Meteorology, Climatology and Geophysics, Dwikorita Karnawati. Najmul Akhyar, district chief in North Lombok, told MetroTV that three people died and there were blackouts, so it has not been possible to assess the situation at all. Sutopo Purwo Nugroho, spokesman for the National Agency for Disaster Mitigation, said the quake felt strong in Lombok and Bali and there were damaged houses on both islands. On July 29, another temblor of magnitude 6.4 in Lombok left 16 people dead. Like Bali, Lombok is known for its beaches and pristine mountains. Hotels and other buildings in both places can not exceed the height of the coconut trees. Indonesia is prone to earthquakes due to its location on the Pacific "Ring of Fire", an arc of volcanoes and faults in the Pacific basin. In December 2004, a magnitude 9.1 earthquake in Sumatra triggered a tsunami that killed 230,000 people in a dozen countries.
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