Earthquake — Indonesia: Lombok Island

When

19 Aug 2018

Kind

Earthquake

Magnitude

6.3

Where

Indonesia

Coordinates

8.34° S, 116.60° E

Deaths

2

Injuries

1

Intensity mmi

6

Depth km

16

Earthquake in Indonesia

On 19 August 2018 a major earthquake struck with high intensity on the northeast corner of Lombok and northwest Sumbawa at 22:56 local time, a few km to the east of a series of quakes that had been rocking the area for the past 3 weeks. It was measured at Mw 6.9 (USGS), at a depth of 21.0 km. The Indonesian BMKG announced that it was a new major earthquake and not an aftershock.

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• NCEI significant earthquakes, tsunamis and volcanic eruptionsNOAA National Centers for Environmental InformationPublic domainSource page
• Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “At least 14 people were killed and 24 people were wounded after a strong magnitude 6.9 earthquake struck the island of Lombok”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (Chinese), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “印尼龙目岛发生里氏6.3级地震。”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page

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