Three killed in Indonesia’s Java after latest 6.0-magnitude earthquake, which sent panic through IMF summit in Bali
The tremor struck after a 7.5-magnitude quake and subsequent tsunami struck off the Indonesian island of Sulawesi last month – around 1,000km northeast of the latest quake’s epicentre – killing more than 2,000 people
An earthquake on Thursday killed three people in Indonesia and rattled hotels where International Monetary Fund (IMF) delegates were attending a major summit, a fortnight after a quake-tsunami killed more than 2,000 elsewhere in the archipelago.
The 6.0-magnitude earthquake struck off the coast of Indonesia’s Bali and Java islands in the early hours, jolting residents awake and sending them rushing into the streets.
Some attendees in Bali for the IMF and World Bank annual meetings this week evacuated their hotels as the quake shook the island.
“I felt the quake for at least 30 seconds and I panicked. At first I didn’t want to go out but then I decided to leave,” said Katharina Sudiyono, an Indonesian attendee at the summit.
Peter Jacobs, head of the Indonesian Central Bank’s IMF-World Bank taskforce, said delegates in Bali’s Nusa Dua district for the summit were quickly informed of the situation.