Bali was rocked by earthquake today

Bali was rocked by an earthquake 6.8 on the Richter scale, according to some witnesses, as reported by Metro TV, Thursday 13 October 2011. Very strong shocksmake the building sway for about 2 minutes. According to the Meteorology and Geophysics, Bali residents felt the quake was notlarge enough potential tsunami, while the epicenter was 143 km southwest of NusaDua, Bali.

The depth of the earthquake is mentioned 10 kilometers, while the earthquakeoccurred at 10:16 pm and is felt by not only Bali, but also a number of areas in East Java and West Nusa Tenggara.Currently there are 16 victims who were hospitalized Sanglah Denpasar Bali, mostlyvictims ofdomestic students smk 2 Denpasar affected by tile school. The government appealed to the peoplebali alert in case of aftershocks.