Thursday, October 13, 2011

Bali Quake

BALI, Indonesia – A powerful earthquake jolted Indonesia's popular resort island of Bali on Thursday, causing widespread panic and injuring at least 50 people, many with broken bones and head wounds.

The walls of some temples along the coast crumbled, and witnesses told local radio and television stations the roofs of some homes collapsed.

The U.S. Geological Survey said the 6.0-magnitude quake was centered 60 miles southwest of the island. It hit 36 miles beneath the ocean floor.

A giant quake off the country on Dec. 26, 2004, triggered a tsunami in the Indian Ocean that killed 230,000 people, half of them in Indonesia's westernmost province of Aceh.
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