© USGSA 6.3 magnitude earthquake has hit the Indonesian island of Lombok - the latest in a series of tremors
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.
Residents said the earthquake was felt strongly in East Lombok.
"I was driving to deliver aid to evacuees when suddenly the electricity pole was swaying. I realised it was an earthquake.
"People started to scream and cry. They all ran to the street," East Lombok resident Agus Salim told AFP news agency.
The tremor was also felt in the island's capital Mataram and on the neighbouring resort island of Bali.
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.
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
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.
SOURCE: AFP NEWS AGENCY
Comment: We appear to be in a period of increased seismic activity. Some recent notable earthquakes include:
- Powerful magnitude 8.2 earthquake hits Pacific near Fiji
- Strong and shallow M6.1 earthquake strikes Costa Rica
- Deep M6.6 earthquake hits north-east of Raba, Indonesia
- Very shallow M6.4 earthquake hits Ogasawara region, Japan - preceded by another mag 6 just a minute earlier
- Magnitude 6.6 earthquake strikes near Tanaga Volcano, Alaska
- Shallow M4.4 earthquake felt across Southern California
- Adapt 2030 Ice Age Report: Are the New Madrid and Alaskan fault zones waking?
- Strong shallow mag. 6.2 earthquake in the South Sandwich Islands region
- Another shallow magnitude 6 earthquake hits Alaska - 2nd in under 24 hours
- Deadly earthquake lifts Indonesian island by nearly a foot
- Shallow M6.4 earthquake hits northern Alaska - 47 quakes in the last 24 hours
- Nearly two dozen earthquakes at the gigantic Katla volcano in Iceland
- Shallow M5.8 earthquake strikes Greenland sea, followed by M4.6
- New shallow 6.2 magnitude earthquake hits Indonesia's Lombok as death toll from first tremor tops 300
- Millions panic as second powerful earthquake in a week hits Lombok, Indonesia - 91 reported dead (Update)
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