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| -Signs, Portents, and the Weather- |
| Indonesia: Lombok Island rocked by two major tremors within hours |
| 2018-08-20 |
| [Al Jazeera] A second earthquake has jolted the Indonesian island of Lombok just hours after an earlier tremor triggered landslides and damaged buildings. The US Geological Survey measured Sunday's quake, which was centred in the island's northeast, at magnitude 6.9 with a depth of 20km. It followed a separate 6.3 magnitude tremor recorded earlier in the day which rocked the same region of the beleaguered tourist island. Lombok is struggling to recover from a series of powerful earthquakes which have hit the island in recent weeks, killing hundreds of people and damaging tens of thousands of homes. About 350,000 have been displaced as a result of the tremors. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #2 Tell San Francisco |
| Posted by: European Conservative 2018-08-20 09:36 |
| #1 You're living on top of the world's most active subduction zone. Don't worry, be happy. |
| Posted by: ed in texas 2018-08-20 07:59 |