TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - Thousands of residents of Mataram were evacuating the capital of West Nusa Tenggara province (NTB) following a tsunami warning after the 7.0 richter scale magnitude earthquake jolted Lombok Island on Sunday night.

In addition, a student of the Riyadussibat Islamic Boarding School (Pesantren), identified as Muhammad Khudori (14), died after being crushed by the rubble of building caused by the earthquake.

Lombok is in a tsunami alert status following the issuance of early warning after an earthquake measuring 7.0 on the Richter scale shook the NTB province on Sunday at 6.46 p.m. Western Indonesian Standard Time (WIB).

"My child was seriously injured in the head," said Khairul, the father of the victim. Khairul was crying over his son`s death on the highway in front of the Army hospital in Mataram.

Khudori died after being hit by the rubble of building caused by the earthquake while the child was reciting the holy book of Al-Quran.

Khairul brought his son using a car belonging to the local resident to the Mataram hospital from the Islamic boarding school which was about 50 meters from his house.

Khudori`s father vomited while crying in cold condition because he only used gloves and underwear when transporting the ill-fated Khudori at the moment.

The epicenter of the earthquake is located at 8.37 degrees southern latitude and 116.48 degrees eastern longitude at a depth of 15 kilometers.

The alert status warning meant that the wave height was less than 50 centimeters.

After the earthquake, a tsunami was detected with a height of 0.135 m in Carik at 6:48 p.m. local time with an altitude of 0.100 m at 6:54 p.m.

ANTARA