An seism of 6.4 magnitude stricken Indonesia now.
The quake impinge on hit the coast of Indonesia's Westward Timor island at about 2.15pm topical anesthetic time, the US Geologic Go over (USGS) habitual.
The Brobdingnagian tremor struck at a depth of 5.3 miles in the sea just no tsunami monition has been issued for the area.
The Vacation Refuge Lombok at Senggigi in Western United States Nusa Tenggara state in Revered 10 this twelvemonth was left wing deserted afterwards the knock-down earthquakes that smitten the Indonesian island cleanup around 500 the great unwashed and sent holidaymakers fleeing the expanse.
Precisely hours in front the earthquake a littler 4.7 magnitude shudder come to the northside of the island.
Thither are no reports of harm or casualties at this point.
Witnesses described a brawny saccade that lasted a few seconds.
An Alpha fetoprotein newsperson in Kupang said: model pagar beton minimalis 'I was on the endorsement knock down of my spot and suddenly everybody ran outside because of the earthquake.
'Whole the chairs were shaking, we were traumatised by all the earthquakes in Lombok.'
A string along of pestilent earthquakes that rocked Lombok island this summer killed some 555 populate.
Indonesia's catastrophe office aforementioned the situation chop-chop returned to convention.
Sutopo Purwo Nugroho, agency spokesman aforementioned in a statement: "Local disaster mitigation agency officials are still monitoring the impact of the earthquake.
"There are no victims or scathe."
Indonesia, one of the most disaster-prone nations on earth, straddles the so-called Pacific 'Ring of Fire', where tectonic plates collide and many of the world's volcanic eruptions and earthquakes occur.
Earlier this month 555 people were confirmed dead and more than 236 severely injured in a 6.9 magnitude earthquake that rocked the neighbouring Indonesian tourist island of Lombok.
The island is popular with tourists and the series of earthquakes left terrified holidaymakers fleeing the area, as well as many of the picturesque resorts deserted.
The earthquake was around 60 miles southeast of Kupang - capital of the province of East Nusa Tenggara.
Muslim men perform Friday prayers around the damaged mosque in Kokok Putek Village on August 24 this year after the devastating earthquake in East Lombok.
At least £263 million ($340 million) in damage was caused by the quakes with more than 350,000 people forced to flee their homes.
Locals in the village of Kokok Putek were forced to conduct Friday prayers in damaged buildings surrounded by rubble in the aftermath of the quake.
The USGS assessment of Indonesia's earthquake risk reads: 'The population in this region resides in structures that are vulnerable to earthquake shaking, though resistant structures exist.
'The predominant vulnerable building types are unreinforced brick with concrete floor and precast concrete frame with wall construction.
'Recent earthquakes in this area have caused secondary hazards such as landslides that might have contributed to losses.'
On Boxing Day 2004 a tsunami in the Indian Ocean caused after a magnitude 9.3 earthquake off the coast of Sumatra in western Indonesia killed 220,000 in 14 countries, including 168,000 Indonesians.
