{"id":12012,"date":"2018-08-19T06:22:28","date_gmt":"2018-08-19T06:22:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=12012"},"modified":"2018-08-19T06:22:28","modified_gmt":"2018-08-19T06:22:28","slug":"indonesia-magnitude-6-3-earthquake-rocks-lombok-island","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=12012","title":{"rendered":"Indonesia: Magnitude 6.3 earthquake rocks Lombok island"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A strong 6.3-magnitude earthquake rocked the Indonesian island of Lombok on Sunday, sending people fleeing into the streets just two weeks after a quake which killed more than 460 people<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The quake was centred west-southwest of Belanting town in East Lombok, the US Geological Survey said, at a relatively shallow depth of seven kilometres.<\/p>\n

Residents said the earthquake was felt strongly in East Lombok.<\/p>\n

“I was driving to deliver aid to evacuees when suddenly the electricity pole was swaying. I realised it was an earthquake.<\/p>\n

“People started to scream and cry. They all ran to the street,” East Lombok resident Agus Salim told AFP news agency.<\/p>\n

The tremor was also felt in the island’s capital Mataram and on the neighbouring resort island of Bali.<\/p>\n

It comes two weeks after a shallow 6.9-magnitude quake on August 5 levelled tens of thousands of homes, mosques and businesses across Lombok.<\/p>\n

Indonesia, an archipelago of thousands of islands, sits on the so-called Pacific “Ring of Fire”, where tectonic plates collide and many of the world’s volcanic eruptions and earthquakes occur<\/p>\n

In 2004, a tsunami triggered by a magnitude 9.3 undersea earthquake off the coast of Sumatra, in western Indonesia, killed 220,000 people in countries around the Indian Ocean, including 168,000 in Indonesia.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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