A series of earthquakes including a 7.7 has struck Indonesia’s Sulawesi island.
The 7.7 earthquake, which hit Central Sulawesi’s Donggala region at 6:02pm WITA, triggered a tentative tsunami warning. Although the warning was later withdrawn by Indonesia’s Meteorology, Climatology, and Geophysics (BMKG) Agency, footage has gone viral showing whitewater covering several buildings and a large mosque in the city of Palu, some 80 kilometers away from the quake’s epicenter.
The extent of damage caused by the earthquakes including victims and losses is not yet known, but at least one person has been marked dead, reports the Tribun network.
#Peringatan Dini Tsunami di SULTENG,SULBAR, Gempa Mag:7.7, 28-Sep-18 17:02:44WIB, Lok:0.18LS,119.85BT,Kdlmn:10Km#BMKG pic.twitter.com/V9FLnJbdhs
— BMKG (@infoBMKG) September 28, 2018
Indonesia sits on the so-called Pacific “Ring of Fire”, where tectonic plates collide and many of the world’s volcanic eruptions and earthquakes occur.
Over the past few months, the archipelago nation’s Lombok and Sumbawa islands have been hit by a number of earthquakes, with a 7.0 on Aug. 5 being the largest recorded in the recent activity.
Editor’s Note: This is a developing story. We have added more information to this article, as it has become available.
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