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A powerful earthquake jolted the Indonesian resort island of Bali on Thursday, injuring dozens of people and triggering panic as tourists fled violently shaking buildings.

The 6.0-magnitude quake rocked the main tourist district of Kuta for several minutes, damaging ancient Hindu temples and sending concrete debris crashing down onto cars and pavements as walls and roofs collapsed.

Kuta's main thoroughfare of Sunset Road, lined with restaurants, malls and supermarkets, was hard hit with cracks forming on the facade of several buildings.

Many of the 43 injured were children from three damaged schools. At one hospital, more than a dozen students - their uniforms torn and blood-stained - were crying and clutching their bleeding heads.

The quake, which was also felt in the neighboring islands Lombok and Java, was followed by a 4.6-magnitude aftershock, Disaster Management Agency spokesman Sutopo Purwo Nugroho said.

Stephanie Fleming, a Briton who works for a tourism company in the Seminyak area close to Kuta, said her office shook violently for about a minute.

"It looked like a wall in our office was about to fall down," she said.

Indonesia sits on the Pacific "Ring of Fire", where the meeting of continental plates causes high seismic activity, and is frequently hit by earthquakes.

In October 2010 a powerful earthquake triggered a huge tsunami off the coast of Sumatra, northwest of Bali, killing at least 300 people.

Questions:

1. Which Indonesian island did the quake jolt?

2. How many people were injured?

3. How many people died in the October 2010 tsunami?

Answers:

1. Bali.

2. 43.

3. 300.

（中國日報網英語點津 Helen 編輯）

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Lee Hannon is Chief Editor at China Daily with 15-years experience in print and broadcast journalism. Born in England, Lee has traveled extensively around the world as a journalist including four years as a senior editor in Los Angeles. He now lives in Beijing and is happy to move to China and join the China Daily team.