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Two killed after undersea tremors

Updated on 09 November 2009

Source PA News

Two people have died and buildings have been damaged on the remote Indonesian island of Sumbawa following a strong undersea earthquake.

Dozens more people were taken to hospital on the island after the 6.7-magnitude quake.

It struck at 3.41am local time (1941 GMT) on Monday near a small island chain just east of the Lombok resort island. It had a depth of 11 miles (17.7 kilometres) and the epicentre was about 830 miles (1,335 kilometres) east of the capital, Jakarta.

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