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Strong Quake Rocks Indonesian Island, One Killed 11 days ago
(RTTNews) - A 6.7 magnitude earthquake hit the Indonesian island of Sumbawa early Monday morning, killing one person and injuring 70 others.
The powerful but shallow quake struck at 02.41 Jakarta time (1941 GMT Sunday) with its epicenter located about 10 miles (15 kilometers) from the town of Raba of West Nusa Tenggara province, about 1,300 km east of the capital Jakarta, and at a depth of 11 miles (18 kilometers), the United States Geological Survey said. However, no tsunami warning was issued.
According to a Disaster Management Agency official, a health clinic, four school buildings and ten houses have collapsed, and over 50 houses suffered damage in Bima of West Nusa Tenggara province, the worst-hit and the closest area to the epicenter of the quake.
The police chief in Bima said six people were badly injured with three in a coma and one of whom later died.
The quake came as Indonesia is undertaking reconstruction works in the provinces of West Sumatra and West Java after they were hit by 7.6 and 7.3-magnitude quakes respectively in the recent past. More than one thousand people were killed in these quakes.
Indonesia, with a population of over 230 million, experiences frequent earthquakes as well as tsunamis triggered by underwater tremors. The archipelago country with over 17,500 islands, is situated in an area of intense seismic activity known as the "Pacific Ring of Fire," where the meeting of continental plates causes high volcanic and seismic activity.
Last year, more than 500 people died when a tsunami hit the Java coast after an undersea earthquake. And in the Asian tsunami of December 2004, over 130,000 people died in the northern island of Sumatra when powerful waves destroyed swathes of the province of Aceh.
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