INDONESIAN EARTHQUAKE Party goes on in Seminyak, despite quake
IT is business as usual in the Seminyak resort area of Bali about 7.4km north of the worst hit areas around Kuta and Denpasar, where a clean up is underway.
There appears to be no damage in Seminyak.
Amazingly, only three hours after the quake, partygoers were lined up in a 100m long queue to enter popular nightclub La Favela in the main street, unlike Kuta where the streets were empty.
Adam Wayhu, on holiday from Yogyakarta, was staying in a second-floor resort room at Seminyak when the earthquake struck.
He feared the worst as he fled the room for safety outdoors.
“It felt bigger than we have had in Jogya,” Mr Wayhu said.
“I was on the third floor of a hotel in central Jogya city in 2006.
“The only way I could get out was tying bed sheets together and sliding out the window. Last night felt much bigger.”
More than 5000 people were killed in the 2006 earthquake.
Mr Wayhu would not return to his resort room until 1am after friends involved in rescue efforts told him experts were expecting a third big quake about 12.30pm.
“But that didn’t happen thank goodness,” he said.
The quake, measured at a magnitude of 7.0 by Indonesian authorities and a stillpowerful 6.9 by the US Geological Survey, struck early Sunday evening at a depth of 10.5km in north Lombok.