On Sunday, August 5, and magnitude 7.0 (on the Richter Scale) hit the Indonesian tourist island of Lombok, also damaging buildings on the island of Bali. Both islands are located on the Ring of Fire, and area in the Pacific of increased volcanic and seismic activity. The death count is currently at 91 and expected to rise.
A tsunami warning was originally issued but revoked. The would-be “tsunami” ended up 6 inches high. The aftershock of the quake was magnitude 5.6. These came one week after an earthquake in the same location.