Rescuers are trying to evacuate hundreds of tourists on Mount Rinjani on the Indonesian island of Lombok after an earthquake that killed many people. Mount Rinjani National Park chief, Sudiyono, said on Monday a team of about 165 rescuers is expected to reach a crater lake where the foreign and Indonesian are trapped by late afternoon. “Get food and medicines to them as soon as possible is now our priority,” said Sudiyono.
The landslides on Rinjani killed an Indonesian student, raising the number of death from the magnitude 6.4 earthquake to 16. The shallow quake on early Sunday damaged more than 1,400 houses and was felt on neighboring Bali, where no damage or casualties were reported. Indonesia’s earthquake agency has recorded more than 270 aftershocks.
The National Disaster Mitigation Agency said more than 680 people were trapped on Rinjani based on figures from its entry gates where visitors were registered. Most are foreigners－from 26 countries, including more than 330 from Thailand. Like Bali, Lombok is known for beautiful beaches and mountains. Hotels and other buildings in both locations are not allowed to be over the height of coconut trees so that it will keep its special style of sights.
Indonesia is easy to have earthquakes due to its location on the “Ring of Fire”, an arc of volcanoes and fault lines encircling the Pacific Ocean. In December 2004, a massive magnitude 9.1 earthquake off Sumatra brought a tsunami that killed 230,000 people in a dozen countries.
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