Most people living in our street
also ran outside. We waited for any after shock but there was none, so
after telling lots of extra boring, previous earthquake stories,
we returned to the house to inspect for damage. Fortunately there was none.
The epicenter was near Lombok, 78 km from our house. The exact position
-8.40 degrees latitude and 115.95 degrees longitude. The magnitude was
5.4 on the richter scale. The seismic monitoring station in Bali registered
6.2, we feel this to be a bit high. |
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Tinny our street dog slept through
the quake |
1 Dead
23 injured
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The worse hit area was around the
Candi Desa area in east Bali. Where many buildings were damaged. It was
reported 1 man died of a heart attack and a boy had 2 legs broken in the
panic. |
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Eye
Witness Report
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From David Booth |
www.eastbalipovertyproject.org
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I was staying in Alila Hotel when
the earthquake struck. The shock lasted, I would say, much more than 2
minutes and was bloody darned scary. As I drove into Candidasa at 10.20am,
there were two ambulances with sirens blaring heading towards Amlapura.
I got information later that 3 people were seriously injured by their house
roofs caving in on them. One man was transferred to Sanglah (Hospital DPS)
in a very serious condition. I just read the AFP report and it seems very
badly informed. Fortunately in Desa Ban (our Project Village), none was
injured. I guess that is mainly because all of their houses are single
room, majority only made from bodeg (woven bamboo) generally with zinc
roofs. |
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Kids in Desa Ban
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Seismic
Monitoring
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Indonesia does not belong to the
American lead, International seismic monitoring service, the nearest is
run by the Australian government on Cocos island, 1274 km from Jakarta
or 2038 km from the KHO. The strength of the quake was registered as 5.4
by the Cocos monitoring station. Bali has a monitoring station and belongs
to the ASEAN network. |
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The Cocos Isl Seismic station
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Earthquake
Zone
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The 1917 Bali Earthquake
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Bali suffers earthquakes regularly,
the worse recorded was on 21st of January 1917 north of Singaraja, Bali,
with over with over 15,000 people dead. Other major quakes occurred
in 1830, 1888 and 1979. Bali also has suffered many volcano eruptions and
Tsunami (tidal waves) in 1977 and 1994. |
1994
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An earthquake of magnitude 7.6 occurred
off the SE coast of Java Island, Indonesia, at 01:17AM local time on June
3, 1994 The epicenter was at 10.5°S, 113.0°, about 240 km from
the nearest coast. The shock was felt on east Java island and on Bali Island,
but only awakened 10-20% of the inhabitants. No damage was reported on
land. About 50 mins after, a large tsunami struck SE Java and SW
Bali, causing serious damage. 223 dead, approximately 400 were
injured, and over 1000 houses were destroyed. |
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