DOZENS DEAD IN INDONESIA EARTHQUAKE.

A powerful earthquake struck the Indonesian tourist island of Lombok on Sunday, killing at least 82 people and shaking neighbouring Bali, one week after another quake on Lombok killed more than a dozen.

The latest quake, which triggered a brief tsunami warning, damaged buildings as far away as Denpasar on Bali, including a department store and the airport terminal, where ceiling panels were shaken loose, authorities said.

Video showed screaming people running in panic from houses in a Bali neighbourhood and vehicles rocking. On Lombok, soldiers and other rescuers carried injured people on stretchers and carpets to an evacuation centre.

National Disaster Mitigation Agency spokesman Sutopo Purwo Nugroho said the death toll had risen to 82, with hundreds injured. Earlier officials said at least 39 people had died.

Thousands of houses were damaged, and most of the dead victims were hit by collapsed houses, Nugroho said.