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On 19 August 2018 a major earthquake struck with high intensity on the northeast corner of
On 19 August 2018 a major earthquake struck with high intensity on the northeast corner of Lombok
Lombok is an island in West Nusa Tenggara province, Indonesia. It forms part of the chain of the Lesser Sunda Islands, with the Lombok Strait separating it from Bali to the west and the Alas Strait between it and Sumbawa to the east. It is ...
(Sambelia and Labuhan Lombok settlements) and northwest Sumbawa
Sumbawa is an Indonesian island, located in the middle of the Lesser Sunda Islands chain, with Lombok to the west, Flores to the east, and Sumba further to the southeast. Along with Lombok, it forms the province of West Nusa Tenggara, but th ...
(Poto Tano settlement) at 22:56 local time, a few km to the east of the series of quakes that had been rocking the area for the past 3 weeks. It was measured at 6.9 (USGS), at a depth of 25.6 km. The Indonesian BMKG announced that it was a new major earthquake and it was not an aftershock. The earthquake occurred on the same overall structure, the Flores Back Arc Thrust Fault
Flores Back Arc Thrust Fault is a major system of west-east trending thrust faults that extend eastwards from west of Lombok towards the islands of Sumbawa, Flores, and Alor, with a total length of at least 800 km. The thrust faults are south- di ...
, however according to scientists it happened on a different thrust fault as there are many individual structures within the belt. There were 14 deaths and 1800 homes have been damaged, half severely, due to this event, including deaths on Sumbawa, following 2 deaths from the previous Lombok quake roughly 24 hours earlier. Heavy tiles fell from the local mosque, and 143 patients were being treated outdoors in makeshift tents for injuries on Sumbawa.
See also
* 5 August 2018 Lombok earthquake *July 2018 Lombok earthquake
A Mw 6.4 earthquake struck the island of Lombok on the morning of 29 July 2018 at a shallow depth of . Widespread damage was reported in the area, and authorities confirmed that 20 people were killed in the earthquake while hundreds were injur ...
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* * – This link covers all the July and August Lombok earthquakes. 2018 disasters in Indonesia 2018 earthquakes August 2018 events in Indonesia Earthquakes in Indonesia West Nusa Tenggara {{Indonesia-hist-stub