A magnitude 7.2 earthquake struck in the sea, 124 kilometres north-northeast of the holiday island of Lombok, Indonesia, on Sunday at a very shallow depth of 1km, the United States Geological Survey said.

There was no immediate tsunami alert from the Pacific Tsunami Warning Centre.

Earlier on Sunday a tremor of 6.3 magnitude struck the island, where an earthquake earlier this month killed more than 430 people.</s>A magnitude 7.2 earthquake struck in the sea, 124 kilometres north-northeast of the holiday island of Lombok, Indonesia, on Sunday at a very shallow depth of 1km, the United States Geological Survey said.

There was no immediate tsunami alert from the Pacific Tsunami Warning Centre.

Earlier on Sunday a tremor of 6.3 magnitude struck the island, where an earthquake earlier this month killed more than 430 people.</s>The earthquake struck in the sea 124 km (75 miles) north-northeast of the holiday island on Sunday at a very shallow depth of 1km, the US Geological Survey said.

There was no immediate tsunami alert from the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center.

Just hours earlier, the island was hit by a magnitude 6.3 tremor at a depth of 7.9km.</s>(Reuters) - A magnitude 7.2 earthquake struck in the sea 124 km (75 miles) north-northeast of the holiday island of Lombok, Indonesia, on Sunday at a very shallow depth of 1 km, the United States Geological Survey said.

There was no immediate tsunami alert from the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center.

Earlier on Sunday a tremor of 6.3 magnitude struck the island, where an earthquake earlier this month killed more than 430 people.</s>REUTERS: A magnitude 7.2 earthquake struck in the sea 124 km (75 miles) north-northeast of the holiday island of Lombok, Indonesia, on Sunday at a very shallow depth of 1 km, the United States Geological Survey said.

There was no immediate tsunami alert from the Pacific Tsunami Warning Centre.

Earlier on Sunday a tremor of 6.3 magnitude struck the island, where an earthquake earlier this month killed more than 430 people.</s>STUDIO CITY (CBSLA) — A powerful 6.3-magnitude earthquake rocked the Indonesian island of Lombok Sunday, the third major temblor at the popular tourist destination in as many weeks.

There were no immediate reports of damage or injuries as a result of the tremor, the epicenter of which the U.S. Geological Survey reported was 4 miles deep in the northeast area of the island.

There have been at least 460 deaths reported stemming from the massive 7.0-magnitude earthquake that hit the island Aug. 5, The Associated Press reported Sunday. Just a week before that, a 6.4-magnitude earthquake on the island resulted in 14 deaths.

Another deep, 8.2-magnitude quake also struck off the island of Fiji Sunday, about 174 miles northeast of Ndoi Island. Small tsunami waves have been observed, but no damage has been reported, nor are casualties expected.</s>Quake was also felt in neighbouring island of Bali and comes two weeks after earthquakes killed 460

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A 6.3-magnitude earthquake rocked the Indonesian island of Lombok on Sunday, sending people fleeing into the streets just two weeks after a quake which killed more than 460 people.

The quake was centred west-southwest of Belanting town in East Lombok, the US Geological Survey said, at a relatively shallow depth of 7km.

Residents said the earthquake was felt strongly in east Lombok.

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“I was driving to deliver aid to evacuees when suddenly the electricity pole was swaying. I realised it was an earthquake.

“People started to scream and cry. They all ran to the street,” East Lombok resident Agus Salim said.

Husni (@husni_portraits) Two series of quakes 5.2 and 6.4 m have just rocked #Lombok a few mins ago. The quakes have caused big landslides in Belanting village, East Lombok. @IFRCAsiaPacific pic.twitter.com/78UKwDbXEw

The tremor was also felt in the island’s capital Mataram and on the neighbouring resort island of Bali.

It comes two weeks after a shallow 6.9-magnitude quake on 5 August levelled tens of thousands of homes, mosques and businesses across Lombok.

Indonesia, an archipelago of thousands of islands, sits on the so-called Pacific “ring of fire”, where tectonic plates collide and many of the world’s volcanic eruptions and earthquakes occur

In 2004, a tsunami triggered by a magnitude 9.3 undersea earthquake off the coast of Sumatra, in western Indonesia, killed 220,000 people in countries around the Indian Ocean, including 168,000 in Indonesia.</s>A magnitude 7.2 earthquake struck in the sea 124 km (75 miles) north-northeast of the holiday island of Lombok, Indonesia, on Sunday at a very shallow depth of 1 km, the United States Geological Survey said.

There was no immediate tsunami alert from the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center.

Earlier on Sunday a tremor of 6.3 magnitude struck the island, where an earthquake earlier this month killed more than 430 people.</s>(Reuters) - A magnitude 7.2 earthquake struck in the sea 124 km (75 miles) north-northeast of the holiday island of Lombok, Indonesia, on Sunday at a very shallow depth of 1 km, the United States Geological Survey said.

There was no immediate tsunami alert from the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center.

Earlier on Sunday a tremor of 6.3 magnitude struck the island, where an earthquake earlier this month killed more than 430 people.</s>A 6.3-magnitude earthquake struck the northern part of the Indonesian island of Lombok on Sunday without any reports of damage or victims yet.

The United States Geological Survey (USGS), which monitors seismic activity worldwide, located the hypocenter at a depth of 10 km (6 miles) and 58 km northeast of Mataram, the provincial capital.
A 6.3-magnitude earthquake strikes the Indonesian island of Lombok, killing 14.