{"id":11076,"date":"2018-08-10T18:23:16","date_gmt":"2018-08-10T18:23:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=11076"},"modified":"2018-08-10T18:23:16","modified_gmt":"2018-08-10T18:23:16","slug":"over-270000-displaced-as-lombok-quake-death-toll-jumps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=11076","title":{"rendered":"Over 270,000 displaced as Lombok quake death toll jumps"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The death toll from a devastating 6.9-magnitude earthquake<\/a> in Indonesia’s Lombok island has risen to at least 321, according to officials.<\/p>\n

In a statement issued on Friday, the country’s disaster mitigation agency said\u00a0<\/span>that more than 270,000 people had been displaced and 1,033 were hospitalised with injuries due to a series of tremors that struck the island of 3.3 million people in the past two weeks.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Nearly three-quarters of residential structures in North Lombok had been destroyed, Sutopo Nugroho, the agency’s spokesperson, said.<\/p>\n

On Thursday, a third strong earthquake<\/a> in two weeks’ time hit Lombok, a popular tourist destination.<\/p>\n

The magnitude-6.2 earthquake followed Sunday’s<\/a>\u00a0magnitude-6.9 tremor, which came a week after a magnitude-6.4 quake killed at least 17.\u00a0<\/p>\n

In the statement, Nugroho said that a<\/span>fter several days of delays, mobile kitchens have started distributing food and water to thousands of evacuees in the worst-hit areas.<\/p>\n

“Aid is being distributed as quickly as possible upon arrival,” he said, adding that hundreds of volunteers were helping.\u00a0<\/p>\n

On Thursday, he posted a video on Twitter which showed the collapse of a supermarket.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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Dampak gempa 6 SR yang mengguncang Lombok 9\/8\/2018 pukul 12.25 WIB : 2 orang tewas (Zulhadi, Sarafudin), 24 orang luka, dan banyak bangunan rusak. Toko Alfamart di Karang Bedil Mataram roboh diguncang gempa. Bangunan ini sebelumnya sudah rusak saat gempa 7 SR (5\/8\/2018). pic.twitter.com\/3U8l0DIkhu<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Sutopo Purwo Nugroho (@Sutopo_PN) August 9, 2018<\/a>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Fears over continuing aftershocks persist in Lombok, with 450 having been registered since Sunday.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Indonesian President Joko Widodo<\/a> on Friday said he was delaying a visit to Lombok.<\/p>\n

“After the emergency period is over the government will undertake rehabilitation, reconstruction, repairs to residential areas and public facilities,” the cabinet secretariat website quoted Widodo as saying.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Indonesia<\/a>\u00a0is prone to earthquakes because of its location on the Ring of Fire, an arc of volcanoes and fault lines in the Pacific Basin.<\/p>\n

In December 2004, a magnitude-9.1 earthquake off Sumatra Island triggered a massive tsunami<\/a> that killed 230,000 people in a dozen countries.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\n SOURCE: Al Jazeera and news agencies<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The death toll from a devastating 6.9-magnitude earthquake in Indonesia’s Lombok island has risen to at least 321, according to officials. In a statement issued on Friday, the country’s disaster mitigation agency said\u00a0that more than 270,000 people had been displaced and 1,033 were hospitalised with injuries due to a series of tremors that struck the…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":11077,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11076","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-middle_east_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11076","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11076"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11076\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/11077"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}