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Magnitude 7 earthquake rocks Indonesia's Lombok island: USGS

An Indonesian standing among the ruins of a house following the July 29 earthquake in Lombok: a second one struck Sunday. [AFP]

A powerful earthquake rocked Indonesia's Lombok Sunday, sending people running from their homes and triggering a tsunami alert, just a week after a quake killed 17 people on the holiday island.

The latest tremor had a magnitude of seven and struck just 10 km underground according to the US Geological Survey. It was followed by two aftershocks.

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