Indonesia | 5.5 earthquake left 3 dead and 182 wounded on Lombok Island

At least Three people died and 182 were injured after the magnitude 5.5 earthquake that occurred on Lombok Island on Sunday., in the center of the Indonesian archipelago, which was hit last year by a series of earthquakes that left more than 500 dead.

The deceased are two Malaysian tourists and a teenager from the region who were dragged by an avalanche with 36 other people in the Tiu Kelep waterfall, in the base of Rinjan volcanoSutopo Purwo Nugroho, a spokesman for the Disaster Mitigation Agency, said today in the northeast of the island.

The earthquake also caused the collapse of 32 buildings, some 500 were slightly damaged and more than eighty people, including 26 Malaysians, had to be evacuated from the vicinity of the volcano.

L & # 39; hypocenter It was located 23.6 kilometers deep and about 4 kilometers southwest of Sembalun Bumbung village, northeast of the island, according to the United States Geological Survey, which records global seismic activity.

Between July 29 and August 19, 2018, a series of tremors in Lombok, near the island of Bali, left 564 dead and more than 400,000 displaced, most of them after a devastating earthquake of magnitude 6.9 on August 5.

After the first of last year's earthquakes, more than 500 mountaineers were trapped in the Rinjani volcano, one of Lombok's main tourist attractions and the second highest in Indonesia (3,726 meters).

Indonesia is sitting on the so-called Pacific Ring of Fire, an area of ​​great seismic and volcanic activity in which occur each year some 7,000 earthquakes, most of them moderate.

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