New 7-magnitude quake jolts Indonesia's Lombok island

IANS  |  Jakarta 

An measuring 7 on the Richter scale rocked Indonesia's island again on Sunday but no alert was issued, the said.

The quake had its epicentre 30 km northeast of East district of province and a depth of 10 km, Indra Rahma from the agency said, reported.

"This quake is an aftershock of the 7 magnitude one that rattled island on August 5. But this one did not potentially trigger a tsunami," he told Xinhua.

The was measured by the US Geological Survey as 6.9-magnitude.

Earlier on Sunday, a 6.5-magnitude quake hit the island, leaving one person dead and dozens of houses and building damaged, according to

is prone to quake as it sits on a vulnerable quake-hit zone of "the Pacific Ring of Fire".

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First Published: Sun, August 19 2018. 21:34 IST