NSTworld: A strong earthquake jolted Indonesia’s holiday island of Bali early on Thursday.
The quake struck at 1:45 am with an epicenter 255 kilometeres south of the town of Nusa Dua, the US Geological Service reported. The epicentre was a relatively shallow 10 kilometres deep.No casualties or infrastructure damage have been reported so far, but the quake was strongly felt across the holiday island.
“The shaking was not that powerful but ones could feel it. It lasted not more than a minute,” he told AFP.In 2018, a 7.5-magnitude quake and a subsequent tsunami in Palu on Sulawesi island left more than 4,300 people dead or missing.
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