Indonesia’s magnitude 7.7 quake kills at least 51, displaces thousands

Over 1,300 homes damaged and 5,000 people displaced as Indonesia grapples with one of its deadliest quakes in years.

Dozens killed in eastern Indonesia after magnitude 7.7 quake  Reuters

The hunt for survivors continued Sunday after the large quake and dozens of aftershocks struck off eastern Indonesia a day earlier.

The earthquake took place around 5 a.m. and was centered off the coast of Flores Island in the quake-prone archipelago.

The rescue effort had been complicated by landslides cutting off several roads.

A 6.8-magnitude earthquake struck northern Sumatra in Indonesia on Saturday, hours after at least 38 people were killed when a 7.7-magnitude earthquake struck off eastern Indonesia, according to the German Research Centre for Geosciences (GFZ).The latest quake struck at a depth of 158 km (98 miles), GFZ said.Earlier on

The earthquake struck late on Friday, sparking an early tsunami warning.

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Death toll in Indonesia rises to at least 20 after a magnitude 7.7 quake collapsed buildings and triggered a landslide

A powerful magnitude 7.7 earthquake struck off the coast of Indonesia early Saturday, collapsing buildings and homes, killing at least five people and causing panic in a region prone to deadly quakes. The governor of East Nusa Tenggara Province, Emanuel Melkiades Laka Lena, told a press conference the five people died

A magnitude-7.7 earthquake hit off the coast of Indonesia in the eastern Flores region, the United States Geological Survey reported on Friday.