{"id":738307,"date":"2026-08-15T00:42:17","date_gmt":"2026-08-15T00:42:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/738307\/"},"modified":"2026-08-15T00:42:17","modified_gmt":"2026-08-15T00:42:17","slug":"strong-7-7-magnitude-earthquake-strikes-eastern-indonesia-triggering-tsunami-warning-indonesia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/738307\/","title":{"rendered":"Strong 7.7-magnitude earthquake strikes eastern Indonesia, triggering tsunami warning | Indonesia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">A powerful 7.7-magnitude quake struck eastern <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/indonesia\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" data-component=\"auto-linked-tag\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Indonesia<\/a> early on Saturday, the US Geological Survey said, triggering a tsunami warning and prompting hundreds to evacuate.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">The quake hit Indonesia\u2019s Flores region with a depth of 10km at 5:58am on Saturday, Indonesia time. The epicentre of the shallow quake was 68km (42 miles) north-northwest of the city of Ende in East Nusa Tenggara province.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">The initial quake was followed by two aftershocks, including one with a magnitude of 6.1.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">No immediate casualties have been reported.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">\u201cSuddenly it started to shake and I panicked,\u201d 31-year-old hospital customer service official, Lukas Lotar, told AFP.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">\u201cPatients also fled the hospital, the jolt was big. I saw some walls were cracked,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">Indonesia\u2019s meteorology, climatology and geophysics agency (BMKG) issued a tsunami warning and urged residents to stay away from beaches and riverbanks.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">\u201cTsunami modelling results indicate that this earthquake has the potential to generate a tsunami in the provinces of East Nusa Tenggara, South Sulawesi, and West Nusa Tenggara,\u201d BMKG earthquake and tsunami director Wijayanto said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">An alert was issued for waves ranging from 0.5 metres to three metres (1.6 to 9.8 feet).<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">Residents in the town of Maumere on Flores Island, were evacuating to higher ground, an AFP correspondent reported.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">He said the sea in the area could be seen receding, a common phenomenon ahead of a possible tsunami.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">Images broadcast on Indonesian television showed damaged buildings and hundreds of people in nearby Nagekeo regency evacuating.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">Authorities have not reported any casualties, but said tsunami waves between 19 and 30 centimetres have been detected.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">Indonesia, a vast archipelago of more than 17,000 islands, is prone to earthquakes and volcanic activity because of its location on the \u201cRing of Fire\u201d, an arc of volcanoes and fault lines in the Pacific Basin.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">Separately, Australia\u2019s tsunami \u2060warning centre said the undersea earthquake \u200bwill \u200bhave \u201cno tsunami \u200bthreat to the Australian mainland, \u200bislands \u200cor territories\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">*With Agence France-Presse and Reuters<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A powerful 7.7-magnitude quake struck eastern Indonesia early on Saturday, the US Geological Survey said, triggering a tsunami&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":738308,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-738307","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/738307","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=738307"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/738307\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/738308"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=738307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=738307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=738307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}