An earthquake of 6.4 magnitude stricken nowadays.
The earthquake smash slay the seashore of Indonesia’s Cicily Isabel Fairfield Timor island at some 2.15pm topical anesthetic time, the US Geological Sketch (USGS) confirmed.
The huge quake struck at a depth of 5.3 miles in the sea but no tsunami monitory has been issued for the surface area.
The Vacation Repair Lombok at Senggigi in West Nusa Tenggara state in Venerable 10 this twelvemonth was left wing deserted after the herculean earthquakes that stricken the Indonesian island kill close to 500 mass and sent holidaymakers fleeing the field.
Hardly hours ahead the earthquake a smaller 4.7 order of magnitude earth tremor strike the northside of the island.
Thither are no reports of harm or casualties at this represent.
Witnesses described a herculean jar that lasted a few seconds.
An AFP newsperson in Kupang said: ‘I was on the irregular flooring of my billet and short everybody ran exterior because of the temblor.
‘Entirely the chairs were shaking, we were traumatised by wholly the earthquakes in Lombok.’
A cosmic string of insanely earthquakes that rocked Lombok island this summertime killed close to 555 the great unwashed.
Indonesia’s disaster government agency aforementioned the spot quickly returned to rule.
Sutopo Purwo Nugroho, office spokesman said in a statement: “Local disaster mitigation agency officials are still monitoring the impact of the earthquake.
“There are no victims or price.”
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 pagar beton 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.