An Australian reporter in Bali during last night's magnitude 6.9 earthquake centred on the neighbouring island of Lombok says people fled into the streets as the shaking started.
Renae Henry, speaking this morning to TVNZ 1's Breakfast from Denpasar, said she and her housemates immediately ran out of their home for fear of it collapsing on them.
Pool water could be seen "sloshing from side to side" and "the earth shook underneath us for a good minute".
Children were crying and women were calling out in prayer, Henry said.
"People were running from restaurants out on to the street," she said - "it was a scary sort of a situation".
Henry said damage in Denpasar seems to have been fairly minimal, although some panels had fallen at the airport.
Flights into and out of Bali are not affected at this stage, but she said she had anecdotally heard some people were planning on cancelling their trips to Bali due to the quake.
"There's some very shaken up tourists," Henry said.
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