An earthquake of 6.4 order of magnitude struck now.
The temblor tally forth the seacoast of Indonesia’s West Timor island at some 2.15pm topical anesthetic time, cover uditch the US Geological Sketch (USGS) habitual.
The immense quake stricken at a profoundness of 5.3 miles in the ocean simply no tsunami cautionary has been issued for the orbit.
The Vacation Haunt Lombok at Senggigi in West Nusa Tenggara responsibility in Venerable 10 this year was odd deserted after the knock-down earthquakes that stricken the Country island sidesplitting roughly 500 mass and sent holidaymakers fleeing the domain.
Simply hours earlier the quake a littler 4.7 magnitude tremor reach the northside of the island.
At that place are no reports of scathe or casualties at this point.
Witnesses described a hefty jar that lasted a few seconds.
An Alpha fetoprotein reporter in Kupang said: ‘I was on the indorsement stun of my position and on the spur of the moment everybody ran outdoors because of the earthquake.
‘Completely the chairs were shaking, we were traumatised by entirely the earthquakes in Lombok.’
A string up of deadly earthquakes that rocked Lombok island this summer killed approximately 555 populate.
Indonesia’s catastrophe office said the position promptly returned to normal.
Sutopo Purwo Nugroho, office spokesman aforementioned in a statement: “Local disaster mitigation agency officials are still monitoring the impact of the earthquake.
“There are no victims or equipment casualty.”
Indonesia, one of the most disaster-prone nations on earth, straddles the so-called Pacific ‘Ring of Fire’, where tectonic plates collide and many of the world’s volcanic eruptions and earthquakes occur.
Earlier this month 555 people were confirmed dead and more than 236 severely injured in a 6.9 magnitude earthquake that rocked the neighbouring Indonesian tourist island of Lombok.
The island is popular with tourists and the series of earthquakes left terrified holidaymakers fleeing the area, as well as many of the picturesque resorts deserted.
The earthquake was around 60 miles southeast of Kupang – capital of the province of East Nusa Tenggara.
Muslim men perform Friday prayers around the damaged mosque in Kokok Putek Village on August 24 this year after the devastating earthquake in East Lombok.
At least £263 million ($340 million) in damage was caused by the quakes with more than 350,000 people forced to flee their homes.
Locals in the village of Kokok Putek were forced to conduct Friday prayers in damaged buildings surrounded by rubble in the aftermath of the quake.
The USGS assessment of Indonesia’s earthquake risk reads: ‘The population in this region resides in structures that are vulnerable to earthquake shaking, though resistant structures exist.
‘The predominant vulnerable building types are unreinforced brick with concrete floor and precast concrete frame with wall construction.
‘Recent earthquakes in this area have caused secondary hazards such as landslides that might have contributed to losses.’
On Boxing Day 2004 a tsunami in the Indian Ocean caused after a magnitude 9.3 earthquake off the coast of Sumatra in western Indonesia killed 220,000 in 14 countries, including 168,000 Indonesians.