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Villagers panic in a road after an aftershock in Lombok

(9 Aug 2018) A strong aftershock has shaken the Indonesian island of Lombok where tens of thousands of people are homeless after a powerful earthquake on Sunday. Indonesia's geological agency said the quake Thursday afternoon had a magnitude of 6.2 and was shallow, at a depth of 12 kilometres, centred in the northwest of the island. It said it did not have the potential to cause a tsunami. The US Geological Survey measured the quake at magnitude 5.9. National disaster agency spokesman Sutopo Purwo Nugroho said people ran onto roads in panic and buildings were damaged, causing more "trauma" for people on the island. It is the third big quake to hit Lombok in little over a week. Buildings still standing on the island have been weakened after Sunday's 7.0 quake and a 6.4 quake on July 29 that killed 16. Nyoman Sidekarya, chief of the provincial search and rescue agency that covers Lombok, told The Associated Press Thursday that the death toll from Sunday's earthquake is now 227. Several agencies have been releasing higher death toll figures than the 131 announced on Wednesday by National Disaster Mitigation Agency, which has a coordinating role in disaster relief. The agency says it has not verified these other figures but expects the toll to climb. Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork Twitter:   / ap_archive   Facebook:   / aparchives   ​​ Instagram:   / apnews   You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/you...