Heavy 6.7 earthquake strikes Indonesia

[Vidboy10]

At least one person was killed and several dozen more were injured on Monday, after a heavy earthquake with a magnitude of 6.7 struck near the island of Sumbawa in Indonesia.

According to US Geological Survey statistics, the epicentre of the quake was sixteen kilometres from the town of Raba (about 1,300 kilometres from the capital Jakarta) at a depth of eighteen kilometres. The US Pacific Tsunami Warning Centre said that it was unlikely that significant waves would be generated by the tremors.

Indonesia's health ministry crisis centre head said that 38 people were injured and had to be hospitalised by the tremors. He added that a few buildings were damaged, but everything was "under control".

"Residential houses, school buildings, mosques have been damaged, but not all of the buildings are totally destroyed, part of them have collapsed," said police spokesman Tjatur Aprianto.

Indonesia is located on the "Ring of Fire", an area that has frequent seismic activity. Monday's earthquake comes after the country is still recovering from a heavy 7.6 magnitude earthquake that hit the area several weeks ago, killing over a thousand people and destroying hundreds of buildings. In 2004, an even stronger 9.2 earthquake off the coast off northern Sumatra killed close to a quarter of a million people in Indonesia, Thailand, Sri Lanka, and other neighbouring countries.

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[Canonbeat234]

Wow, can we say 'Time to move to America!'

 

[shakirmoledina]

its terrible actually... something is wrong with indonesian soil since the nuclear underwater testing, gotta hate the PPL who do this (Not the nature)

 

[spotanjo3]

Wow, can we say 'Time to move to America!'

You forgot... Earthquake is going to be everywhere in the future. This Earth is getting worse and worse.

 

[House Spider]

Dun they only happen inbetween plates?

 

[Maz7006]

I feel so unsafe in this world

 

[Deleted User]

Dun they only happen inbetween plates?

Yeah they only happen on and around plate boundrys and also on ancient fault line. You study them if you do 5th year geography in secondary school.

 

[Celice]

Wow, can we say 'Time to move to America!'

Can we say, "America is a shit hole too, just in sadly different ways that shouldn't exist!"

 

[omgpwn666]

America is awesome,we got fat greasy chicks with elbow entree.


ON TOPIC: Some spots in America don't have earthquakes such as Florida,if they do it would be !VERY! rare.

 

[Knyaz Vladimir]

I feel so unsafe in this world

I feel really safe, we have earthquakes rarer than Florida. Actually, we NEVER had an earthquake around this part. EVER. Worst is tornado, but one never hit our city.

 

[Raiser]

Poor Indonesia. D:

I'm really worried about Canada though. We haven't had any real big earthquake in a LONG time now.
We've only had little tiny ones that last like.. a minute maybe.

Everyone's sayin' like "yeah, we can pretty much expect a massive earthquake at any moment". ._.

 

[Raika]

Dun they only happen inbetween plates?

Yes, but the shockwaves from the epicenter spreads to countries nearby.

 

[iPikachu]

yay singapore being sheltered by neighbours. :I

poor indonesia. asia's gonna crumble