MOSCOW (Pakistan Point News / Sputnik - 19th August, 2018) Indonesias densely populated island of Lombok was hit on Sunday by a powerful 6.9-magnitude earthquake, the European-Mediterranean Seismological Center (EMSC) said.
This is yet another earthquake that struck Lombok today. Earlier in the day, the US Geological Survey (USGS) registered a 6.3-magnitude earthquake, which shook the area at 04:10 GMT.
New tremors were registered at 14:56 GMT. The epicenter of the earthquake was located 65 kilometers (40.3 miles) east of the Mataram city at the depth of 12 kilometers.
On August 5, the 6.9-magnitude earthquake followed by several aftershocks hit Lombok, leaving at least 436 people dead.
Indonesia is located in a seismically active zone known as the Ring of Fire and regularly suffers from powerful earthquakes. Hundreds of thousands died in 2004, when the most powerful earthquake at that time hit Sumatra's Aceh region, triggering a tsunami in several states bordering the Indian Ocean.
