The epicenter of the earthquake, which was 124 km under the floor of the water, was situated at 9.36 south latitude and 115.59 east longitude, or 74 km southeast of South Kuta, in keeping with official data given by the Indonesia Meteorology, Climatology, and Geophysical Company (BMKG).
Though there have been on-line experiences claiming that the earthquake was felt in Bali as a 5.5, their official evaluation states that the earthquake was 5.8 in magnitude.
The BMKG has said that this earthquake had little potential for a tsunami and that no extra precautions must be taken in Bali, the adjoining Nusa Islands, the Gili Islands, or Lombok, the place the earthquake additionally felt very strongly.
Residents of Java, Madura, and Sumbawa additionally felt the consequences of the earthquake, which was felt broadly over Lombok.
The earthquake that struck Bali on Monday afternoon did minor injury to buildings, however no fatalities or critical accidents have been reported.
A video the place the roof tragically collapsed over the kitchen of an area household in Kuta was posted on Twitter shortly after the earthquake by the Indonesian information outlet BuddyKu Official.
Each inland in direction of Denpasar and alongside the southern coast in standard vacationer resorts similar to Kuta felt the tremor.
I Dewa Gede Rai, the pinnacle of protocol and communications on the Denpasar Metropolis Secretariat, advised the Bali Tribune he felt the earthquake as he sat at his desk. “I used to be nonetheless working,” he famous. “At first it was small, so I simply received up. Then it received larger and I instantly began working.”
The earthquake was additionally felt by close by vacationers, who have been startled by the incident.
Though many Indonesians are used to the sensation of an earthquake, it may be scary and intensely complicated when experiencing one for the primary time. Australian vacationers in Bali advised information.au that the floorboards of their lodge rooms had shifted.
The expertise of an earthquake is steadily described as a headspin, typically resembling abrupt dizziness earlier than the physique acknowledges the feeling is coming from the surface atmosphere. Others have famous how, even supposing earthquakes steadily final solely a short while, time practically appears to cease.
