A reasonably robust earthquake and two aftershocks hit Indonesia’s resort island of Bali on Tuesday, inflicting panic however no speedy stories of injury or casualties.

The US Geological Survey stated the magnitude 4.9 quake was centered 35 kilometers (22 miles) north of Amlapura, a metropolis in Bali’s Karangasem district. Its shallow depth of 9.6 kilometers (6 miles) might have brought on folks to run outdoors.

Many residents and vacationers rushed out of their properties and inns towards larger floor, however the scenario returned to regular after they obtained textual content messages saying the quake had no potential to set off a tsunami.

Indonesia, an unlimited archipelago of 270 million folks, is often struck by earthquakes, volcanic eruptions and tsunamis due to its location on the “Ring of Fireplace,” an arc of volcanoes and fault strains that arcs the Pacific.

An earthquake of an analogous magnitude within the hilly Karangasem final yr triggered landslides and lower off at the very least three villages, killing at the very least three folks.

A magnitude 5.6 earthquake on Nov. 21 killed at the very least 331 folks and injured practically 600 in West Java’s Cianjur metropolis. It was the deadliest in Indonesia since a 2018 quake and tsunami in Sulawesi killed about 4,340 folks.

In 2004, an especially highly effective Indian Ocean quake set off a tsunami that killed greater than 230,000 folks in a dozen international locations, most of them in Indonesia’s Aceh province.