An undersea earthquake with a magnitude of 6.1 has struck south of Indonesia's Bali, the European earthquake monitoring agency EMSC says, causing minor damage and prompting residents and visitors on the tourist island to briefly flee buildings.
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There were no reports of casualties and no tsunami warning issued by the Hawaii-based Pacific Tsunami Warning Center or the Indonesian quake monitoring agency.
The epicentre of Tuesday's quake was 102km southwest of the island capital Denpasar and 100km deep, the EMSC said.
The US Geological Survey recorded the quake with a preliminary magnitude of 5.7.
One resident said people in Denpasar ran out of their boarding house in pyjamas after feeling the quake.
A Twitter user with the handle Indounik in the city of Ubud on Bali said the quake was "strong enough to make me adopt the drop, cover & hold approach recommended to survive a quake".
Another Twitter user, Marc van Voorst, described the quake as feeing like "a heavy truck or train passing by at close range".
He said there was no panic, even though his hotel in the Uluwatu area shook quite a bit.
Indonesia's disaster mitigation agency distributed a photograph of damage at the Lokanatha temple in Denpasar, showing smashed masonry lying on the ground.
Bali is a predominantly Hindu enclave in overwhelmingly Muslim Indonesia.
There was also minor damage at a school, a house and a temple in different areas on the southern side of Bali, according to Balipost.com.
The quake could also be felt in other cities on the neighbouring islands of Lombok and Java, Indonesia's meteorology and geophysics agency said.
A roof of a mosque in the city of Banyuwangi in East Java also partially collapsed, another photo from the disaster mitigation agency showed.
The transport ministry said Bali airport was operating normally.
Indonesia suffers frequent earthquakes, sometimes causing tsunamis, because it lies on the seismically active Pacific Ring of Fire.
Its Moluccas islands were hit by a powerful 7.2 quake on Sunday that killed at least two people.
The most devastating tremor in recent Indonesian history was on December 26, 2004, when a magnitude 9.5 quake triggered a tsunami that killed around 226,000 people along the shorelines of the Indian Ocean, including more than 126,000 in Indonesia.
A tsunami also hit the city of Palu in Sulawesi last year, killing thousands.
AAP
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