Tourists from Bali vibrated out of bed

Tourists from Bali vibrated out of bed

World August 23, 2018 07:16

denpasar - The Indonesian island of Bali is startled by an earthquake with a force of 5.2. Dutch tourists were 'awakened' by the quake at 6.48 am (local time) in the morning.

The epicenter was about 100 kilometers south of Denpasar. The quake was at a depth of 10 kilometers.

'We ran straight out and are okay, but there are now more cracks in my walls,' says Dutchman Marcel Beers, who lives in Bali. 'We now have several earthquakes per day, it does not stop. '

Bali holidaymaker Dylan Suitela speaks about a chaos. 'I ran out because an alarm went very hard. Everyone ran down massively and waited anxiously for the hotel. 'Corne Melissen woke up with his family' shaking. '' No visible damage. Everything apparently normal. '

A series of heavy earthquakes has done a lot of damage on the neighboring island of Lombok.

Heavy and lighter earthquakes alternate since 29 July. The earthquakes can also be felt in Bali. On Sunday, Lombok was hit again by some heavy earthquakes. Ten people died. An earthquake with a force of 6.9 on August 5 already killed more than four hundred people. Hundreds of thousands of people are now homeless. Many people sleep in tents.

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