Quake damages houses on Indonesia’s Sumbawa Island

Updated Friday, August 8, 2008 0:00 am TWN, Reuters

Quake damages houses on Indonesia’s Sumbawa Island

JAKARTA -- A shallow earthquake shook Indonesia’s Sumbawa Island on Thursday, damaging several hundred houses, but there was no tsunami warning or immediate reports of casualties, officials said. The U.S. Geological Survey put the quake’s magnitude at 5.7, while Indonesia’s meteorology and geophysics agency said it was 6.6 on the Richter scale. The epicenter of the quake was 31.69 miles northeast of Sumbawa Island at a depth of 10km, according to an official at the Indonesian agency.

There were at two aftershocks reported in the area later on Thursday.

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