WATCH: A road in Nusa Dua, Bali, is blocked by debris from the damage caused by a 6.1-magnitude earthquake (Video: BNPB Indonesia)
DENPASAR: An undersea earthquake with a magnitude of 6.1 struck south of Indonesia's Bali on Tuesday , the European earthquake monitoring agency EMSC said, causing some residents and visitors on the tourist island to briefly rush out of buildings.
There were no immediate reports of damage or casualties from the quake and there was no tsunami warning issued by the Hawaii-based Pacific Tsunami Warning Center.The epicentre was 102km southwest of the island's capital, Denpasar, and was 100km deep, the EMSC said.One resident said people in Denpasar ran out of their boarding house in pyjamas after feeling the quake.
Another Twitter user, Marc van Voorst, described the quake as feeling like"a heavy truck or train passing by at close range". He said there was no panic, even though his hotel in the Uluwatu area shook quite a bit.Residents survey the damage caused by an earthquake in Bali. The quake could also be felt in other cities on the neighbouring islands of Lombok and Java, Indonesia's meteorology and geophysics agency said in a statement.
Indonesia suffers frequent earthquakes, sometimes causing tsunamis, because it lies on the seismically active Pacific Ring of Fire.
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