Following the latest earthquake, it is the third big quake to hit Lombok within 2 weeks. 

The latest quake on today (Aug 9) was felt strongly on the island and followed a 6.9 quake on Sunday that killed at least 131 and possibly more than 300 people and damaged thousands of houses.

Source: www.independent.co.uk

Witnesses said people ran out onto roads in panic and some buildings collapsed in the north of island. 

"Evacuees and people ran out of houses when they felt the strong shake of the 6.2 magnitude quake...People are still traumatised. Some buildings were damaged further because of this quake," Sutopo Purwo Nugroho, a spokesman for Indonesia's disaster mitigation agency said on Twitter.

Currently, there was no risk of the tsunami.

Buildings still standing on the island have been weakened after Sunday's 6.9 quakes that killed at least 131 people and a 6.4 quake on July 29 that killed 16.

Source: www.abc.net.au

The Indonesian Red Cross said earlier today an estimated 20,000 people in remote areas in the north of the island were in need of aid. Spokesman Arifin Hadi said tens of thousands of people were left homeless and in need of clean water and tarpaulins. He said the agency had sent 20 water trucks to five remote areas, including one village of about 1,200 households.

God bless Lombok!