BREAKING NEWS: An earthquake measuring 7.0 magnitude on the Richter scale rocked Indonesia on Sunday afternoon. According to reports, the quake has hit Lombok island in Indonesia. More details are awaited. No casualties have been reported so far. Indonesia is located in the Ring of Fire, an area in the basin of the Pacific Ocean, which is vulnerable to frequent earthquakes and volcanic eruptions.

n July, over 680 people were trapped on a volcano on Lombok, an Indonesian tourist island, after a deadly earthquake claimed more than a dozen lives. The authorities had carried a rescue operation for the trapped tourists in landslides on Mount Rinjani, an active volcano on the Lombok island. READ MORE


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