Tourist Resort Nusa Dua in Bali hit by another earthquake

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Tourists in Nusa Dua, Bali were woken up at 8.18 am. A magnitude 5.7 earthquake was recorded in the region according to USGS.

There was no tsunami danger, and no immediate report of damages or casualties were recorded.  This was later corrected after one person was pronounced dead due to injuries in the earthquake.  The epic center was 83 kilometres southwest of Nusa Dua.

Nusa Dua is a modern tourism hub on the Island of Bali and home of the Bali convention center.The earthquake could be felt across Bali, on Lombok Island and in parts of East Java.

A spokesperson of Indonesia.travel told eTN the airport continues to operate = normal, and everything is calm.  Some minor damage was recorded including the famous gate of Nusa Dua. In the capital Den Pasar, a roof of a school collapsed, but no injuries were recorded.

Yesterday eTurboNews reported about another earthquake in the region.

 

 

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Juergen T Steinmetz

Juergen Thomas Steinmetz has continuously worked in the travel and tourism industry since he was a teenager in Germany (1977).
He founded eTurboNews in 1999 as the first online newsletter for the global travel tourism industry.

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