Quake damages buildings on Bali, other Indonesian islands

The magnitude 5.7 quake was centred at sea 82 kilometres to the southwest of Denpasar on Bali at a depth of 91 kilometres ,. Indonesia's geophysics agency said the quake didn't have the potential to cause a tsunami.

The national disaster agency posted photos on its Twitter account showing a damaged house and mosque in Banyuwangi in East Java and a damaged Hindu temple in Bali. Video showed damage to an ornate entranceway in Nusa Dua, an area home to high-end resorts in Bali. The main hospital in Denpasar evacuated patients, some attached to intravenous drips, to the hospital grounds, television footage showed. Numerous schools and hotels were also evacuated.

"While having breakfast suddenly everything in the room swayed very strongly," said George Stephen, an Australian holidaying in Bali's Kuta area.A quake on Sunday in North Maluku province killed two people and damaged dozens of homes. Indonesia, home to more than 260 million people, is prone to earthquakes and volcanic eruptions due to its location along the Pacific "Ring of Fire." A powerful Indian Ocean quake and tsunami in 2004 killed a total of 230,000 people in a dozen countries, most of them in Indonesia.

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