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> 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> 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> Indonesian authorities Saturday raised the death toll to 387, the number of injured to 13,688 and those displaced to 387,067 following a 6.9-magnitude earthquake that recently hit the island of Lombok and its subsequent aftershocks.

A spokesperson for the National Agency for Disaster Management (BNPB), Sutopo Purwo Nugroho, warned in a statement that the death toll could further increase because of the ongoing search for victims buried under rubble and landslides after Sunday's temblor. </s> A major earthquake rocked Indonesia's Lombok island today, just a week after a quake had killed 17 people on the holiday island, sending people running from their homes and triggering a tsunami alert.

The latest quake had a magnitude of seven and struck just 10 km underground according to the US Geological Survey.

Officials issued a tsunami warning and urged people to move away from the ocean.

"Please go to a place with higher ground, while remaining calm and not panicking," Dwikorita Karnawati, head of the Indonesian Agency for Meteorology, Climatology and Geophysics, told local TV.

Residents in Lombok's main city Mataram described a strong jolt that sent people scrambling out of buildings.

"Everyone immediately ran out of their homes, everyone is panicking," Iman, a local resident in Mataram, told AFP.

The tremor came a week after a shallow 6.4-magnitude quake hit the island, killing 17 people and damaging hundreds of buildings.

It triggered landslides that briefly trapped trekkers on popular mountain hiking routes.

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.

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> The death toll from a major earthquake on the Indonesian island of Lombok reached more than 430 on Monday.

Bodies were still being pulled from destroyed buildings following the shallow 6.9-magnitude quake on August 5 that levelled tens of thousands of homes, mosques, and businesses across Lombok.

"Search-and-rescue teams are still removing victims who were buried beneath collapsed buildings and landslides," said Sutopo Purwo Nugroho, a spokesman from the National Disaster Mitigation Agency.

The total number of people killed is now 436, Nugroho said, with more than 1,300 injured and nearly 353,000 internally displaced.

The majority of those killed - 374 people - died in the north of the island, near the quake's epicentre. Most deaths were caused by collapsing buildings and falling debris.

Many people are sleeping in tents near their ruined homes or in evacuation centres. Makeshift medical facilities have been set up to treat the wounded as many hospitals were among those destroyed.

Damage to infrastructure, particularly roads, are frustrating efforts by relief agencies to distribute aid in the north, prompting concerns of a looming humanitarian crisis.

Nugroho said helicopters have been air-dropping supplies to isolated communities, many of which are in urgent need of drinking water, food and medicine.

"It's very much still an emergency response operation," said Rosemarie North from the International Committee of the Red Cross.

"They're still discovering people that haven't been reached with assistance. The focus right now is reaching people in real need," she told Al Jazeera.

The economic cost of the earthquake is estimated to be $342m.

Indonesia is prone to earthquakes because of its location in the Ring of Fire, an arc of volcanoes and fault lines in the Pacific Basin.

In December 2004, a magnitude-9.1 earthquake off Sumatra island triggered a massive tsunami, killing 230,000 people in a dozen countries. </s> The death toll in the devastating earthquake that hit the Indonesia island of Lombok rose to at least 319, an official said Thursday, as a powerful aftershock retraumatized the victims and caused even more damage.

The magnitude 5.9 aftershock - centered in the northwest of the island - caused panic, landslides and further damaged buildings and caused more injuries. Indonesia’s geological agency said it would not cause a tsunami.

National disaster agency spokesman Sutopo Purwo Nugroho said the aftershock had caused more “trauma.”

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Videos showed rubble strewn across streets and clouds of dust enveloping buildings. Some people leaped from their vehicles amid stalled traffic in northern Lombok.

Sunday’s magnitude 7.0 quake left more than 156,000 people homeless, with many sleeping in makeshift shelters and out in the open. That temblor came a week after another earthquake killed at least 16 people.

Wiranto, the top security minister who like many Indonesians goes by only one name, told reporters Thursday that the death toll from Sunday’s quake had risen to 319. The announcement came after an inter-agency meeting was called to resolve differing figures from different agencies.

Grieving relatives were burying the dead and medics tended to the injured, many of whom had broken limbs.

The Red Cross said it was focusing relief efforts on an estimated 20,000 people who are yet to receive any assistance. </s> JAKARTA (Reuters) - A major 7.7 magnitude quake struck off the Indonesian island of Sulawesi on Friday, prompting a tsunami alert, hours after a milder quake hit the same area.

Indonesia’s meteorology agency issued an early tsunami warnings for people in Central Sulawesi and West Sulawesi provinces, asking people to evacuate to higher ground.

The U.S. Geological Survey put the magnitude of the second quake at a strong 7.5, after first saying it was 7.7.

The earlier quake destroyed some houses, killing one person and injuring at least 10, authorities said.

A series of earthquakes in July and August killed nearly 500 people on the holiday island of Lombok, hundreds of kilometers southwest of Sulawesi.

Indonesia sits on the Pacific Ring of Fire and is regularly hit by earthquakes.

In 2004, a big earthquake off the northern Indonesian island of Sumatra triggered a tsunami across the Indian Ocean, killing 226,000 people in 13 countries, including more than 120,000 in Indonesia.
A 7.0 magnitude earthquake strikes Lombok, Indonesia. A tsunami warning is issued. At least 131 people are killed and more than 238 are injured.