JAKARTA, Aug. 5 (Xinhua) -- At least 37 people were killed and dozens of others wounded after a 7.0-magnitude quake rocked Lombok and Bali islands in central Indonesia on Sunday, an official of the local disaster agency said.
The casualties were reported on Lombok island after they were hit by collapsing debris and concrete, said M. Rum, head of the disaster management agency in West Nusa Tenggara province.
The number of the injured exceeded the death toll, but the official could not give a precise figure.
"Risk assessment is underway now and the figure will be found out later," he told a local TV.
Gangga and Kayangan sub-districts of Lombok Utara district were the hardest hit areas, said Rum.
The powerful earthquake, which was initially measured at 6.8 magnitude, but was later revised up to 7.0, briefly triggered a tsunami warning.
The quake struck at 18:46 p.m. local time (1146 GMT) with an epicenter 18 km northwest of Lombok Timur in West Nusa Tenggara province and a depth of 15 km.
The tsunami warning was lifted at 20:25 p.m. local time (1325 GMT) by the meteorology and geophysics agency.
"The tsunami was only recorded at the height of below 13 cm," Biana Rahayu from the agency said.
At least nine aftershocks were recorded with the strongest magnitude of 4.9 scale.
On the nearby resort island of Bali, the quake damaged a mall shopping center and scores of houses in three locations, spokesman of the national disaster management agency Sutopo Purwo Nugroho told Xinhua.
