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An earthquake struck offshore from Indonesia's island of Bali on
Saturday, causing some injuries, the meteorology agency and the
health ministry said.
Officials said no tsunami warning had been issued, but the quake at
around dawn was felt strongly on the resort island.
At least seven people were injured, some hit by falling debris from
buildings and others after jumping from high floors, said Rustam
Pakaya, an official at Indonesia's health ministry.
The roof of a shopping mall in the island's capital of Denpasar
also collapsed, the official said.
"When the quake happened I was in a market and some people started
shouting and running out of the market building, leaving their
belongings behind," said Putu Suartana, a resident in Singaraja in
Bali.
He said lamps swayed violently after the quake.
The quake measured 6.4 on the Richter scale and its epicentre was
101 km southeast of Nusadua in Bali at a depth of 36 km, the
meteorology agency said.
Indonesia suffers frequent earthquakes lying in an area of intense
seismic activity where several tectonic plates meet. A quake killed
at least 57 and destroyed thousands of homes in the hills of West
Java on September 2, also causing panic and some damage in the
capital Jakarta.
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