A series of powerful earthquakes shook the Papua New Guinea island of New Britain and Indonesia’s Java and Bali islands, leaving three people dead.
Indonesia and Papua New Guinea has been rocked by deadly earthquakes.
A series of powerful earthquakes shook the Papua New Guinea island of New Britain and Indonesia’s Java and Bali islands, leaving three people dead.
The victims in East Java’s Sumenep district perished after being crushed by collapsed buildings, national disaster agency spokesman Sutopo Purwo Nugroho said.
“The earthquake happened early Thursday when they were sleeping and the quake suddenly rocked so they didn’t have time to evacuate,” he said, adding that damage caused by the tremor was not widespread.
The 6.0-magnitude earthquake was also felt in Bali, where people dashed from shaking buildings.
A major 7.0-magnitude earthquake, followed by after shocks, struck Papua New Guinea’s New Britain island, briefly triggering a tsunami alert before authorities gave the all clear.
Indonesia is still recovering from an earthquake and tsunami on the island of Sulawesi that killed more than 2000 people.