700 people are trapped on a volcano in Indonesia

Mount Agung in Indonesia.
(Image credit: SONNY TUMBELAKA/AFP/Getty Images)

At least 14 people were killed and 160 injured when a 6.4-magnitude earthquake struck Indonesia's Lombok Island on Sunday — and nearly 700 were stranded on a volcano.

Lombok is a popular tourist destination close to Bali, and the initial quake was followed by about 60 smaller tremors as well as landslides on Mount Rinjani, a popular hiking spot. Falling rocks and dust clouds made hikers unable to climb down the volcano, so search and rescue operations are gradually evacuating them.

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Bonnie Kristian

Bonnie Kristian was a deputy editor and acting editor-in-chief of TheWeek.com. She is a columnist at Christianity Today and author of Untrustworthy: The Knowledge Crisis Breaking Our Brains, Polluting Our Politics, and Corrupting Christian Community (forthcoming 2022) and A Flexible Faith: Rethinking What It Means to Follow Jesus Today (2018). Her writing has also appeared at Time Magazine, CNN, USA Today, Newsweek, the Los Angeles Times, and The American Conservative, among other outlets.