Virginia Tech: Crisis, Tragedy, and Recovery NetworkArchive-It Partner Since: May, 2007Organization Type: Colleges & UniversitiesOrganization URL: http://www.vt.edu Virginia Tech, with funding from the US National Science Foundation through grant IIS-0916733, is leading an international consortia to build a human and computing network to collect, archive, organize, and provide ready access for scholars, professionals, and the public interested in supporting ongoing recovery of communities that have faced a crisis or tragedy. In scope are school shootings and all other types of man-made or natural disasters. We welcome involvement of those with relevant content or who are interested in developing collections, as well as those seeking or promoting deeper understanding of CTR. ||||| A powerful earthquake jolted Indonesia's popular resort island of Bali on Thursday, causing widespread panic and injuring at least 50 people, many with broken bones and head wounds. 
 
 The walls of some temples along the coast crumbled, and witnesses told local radio and television stations the roofs of some homes collapsed. 
 
 The U.S. Geological Survey said the 6.0-magnitude quake was centered 60 miles (100 kilometers) southwest of the island. It hit 36 miles (60 kilometers) beneath the ocean floor. 
 
 Although not strong enough to trigger a tsunami, the quake was felt on neighboring Java and Lombok islands, hundreds of miles (kilometers) away. 
 
 "It knocked me off my motorcycle," said one badly shaken Bali resident, Miftahul Chusna. 
 
 Candy Juliani, a public relations officer for the Sanur Beach Hotel, said terrified guests fled the building. 
 
 "We have special emergency routes for this type of situation, but everyone was so scared, they just ignored them," Juliani said. 
 
 At least 50 people were hurt, many with cuts, broken bones and head wounds, said Wayan Sudanti, a hospital spokesman. 
 
 Three were in critical condition. 
 
 Indonesia straddles a series of fault lines that makes the vast island nation prone to volcanic and seismic activity. 
 
 A giant quake off the country on Dec. 26, 2004, triggered a tsunami in the Indian Ocean that killed 230,000 people, half of them in Indonesia's westernmost province of Aceh. 
 
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 Associated Press writer Niniek Karmini contributed to this report from Jakarta. ||||| Bali drug case boy caught in quake 
 
 Updated 
 
 A strong earthquake has struck off the coast of Bali, shaking the police compound where an Australian teenager is being held on drugs charges. 
 
 The quake, measured by the US Geological Survey (USGS) as 6.0, made the walls of the police headquarters warp and flex. 
 
 As the windows shook, hundreds of staff rushed out into the central courtyard. 
 
 The NSW teenager being held there on drugs charges was moved out of his cell but remained inside the building during the brief quake. 
 
 Adult prisoners in the regular holding cells remained locked behind bars. 
 
 Australia's Consul-General, Brett Farmer, says he has been to see the teenager since Thursday's quake. 
 
 He says narcotics officers were preparing the the teenager for an evacuation, but because of the short length of the quake, the boy did not leave the building. 
 
 Indonesia's geophysical agency said the quake measured 6.8 and struck about 140 kilometres south-west of Denpasar, the island's capital, at a depth of 10 kilometres. 
 
 US seismologists however said the 6.0-magnitude quake was 61.3 kilometres deep and about 160 kilometres south-west of the capital. 
 
 Around 50 people have been reported injured in the quake, most from falling roof tiles as hundreds of panicked tourists on the resort island fled buildings that shook violently and cracked in the tremor. 
 
 Rumbling was also felt for several minutes in the main tourist district of Kuta. 
 
 "There was panic, everyone ran out of the buildings. When we returned to our office building, we saw some cracks on the wall and plaster had come off the walls," said Endro Tjahjono from the Bali office of Indonesia's Meteorology and Geophysics Agency. 
 
 Tourists flee 
 
 The area's Sunset Road was hit hard, with hundreds of tourists fleeing from malls, restaurants and supermarkets. 
 
 "Hundreds of people ran onto the streets. It was chaos. So many people tried to drive off that the traffic came to a standstill," said Reno Permana, who ran from the third floor of his office building when the quake hit. 
 
 "Part of the wall on the Carrefour supermarket near my building came down, and tiles from the roof fell and smashed into the parking lot. A lot of the buildings are badly damaged, with windows smashed in." 
 
 Stephanie Fleming, a Briton who works for a tourism company in the Seminyak area close to Kuta, says her office shook violently for around a minute. 
 
 "It happened so quickly. Everything was shaking and the doors were banging open and shut. We didn't really know what to do so we all ran out onto the street," she said. 
 
 "It looked like a wall in our office was about to fall down, but all the structures outside seem more or less intact." 
 
 Evacuated 
 
 Caroline Mercier, a 40-year-old tourist in the island's cultural centre of Ubud, said she was used to feeling quakes in California, but never like this one. 
 
 "It started at my feet and went all though my heart and head - it made me nauseous. My first reaction was to get out of the house. I was very confused when the roof started shaking," she said. 
 
 Novotel Bali Benoa, one of the many resorts in the luxury southern beach area of Nusa Dua, evacuated its guests as the hotel shook for a minute. 
 
 "The funny thing is that the foreign guests who were sitting in the lobby did not feel the shaking. They started running when hearing people say 'there's an earthquake' while running down the lobby," hotel worker Ariyanti said. 
 
 The Hawaii-based Pacific Tsunami Warning Centre did not issue any tsunami warning as a result of the quake. 
 
 ABC/wires 
 
 Topics: earthquake, bali, indonesia, newcastle-2300, australia 
 
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– At least 50 people were injured when a powerful earthquake shook Bali this morning. The 6.1 quake caused widespread panic on the Indonesian resort island, and witnesses say the roofs of some homes collapsed, AP reports. The quake, centered 60 miles southwest of the island, was not strong enough to trigger a tsunami, but it was felt on islands hundreds of miles away. It hit the day after the island marked the anniversary of the terrorist bombings that killed 202 people nine years ago. In the island's main tourist areas, visitors say they were told to run for their lives as cracks began to appear in buildings. A tourist from California says the quake was unlike any she had felt in her home state. "It started at my feet and went all though my heart and head—it made me nauseous," she told Australia's ABC. "My first reaction was to get out of the house. I was very confused when the roof started shaking."