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Magnitude 7.7 Earthquake and Tsunami Strike Eastern Indonesia
BNPB / Indonesian National Disaster Management Authority
What happened
A magnitude 7.7 earthquake struck off Flores in eastern Indonesia on 15 August 2026, triggering a tsunami. More than a hundred people have been killed, over sixteen hundred injured, and more than seventy-seven thousand homes damaged.
It struck off the coast of Flores, in East Nusa Tenggara, and triggered a tsunami with a recorded maximum height of about 1.6 metres.
Homes, schools, health facilities and places of worship were damaged across the affected regencies. Aftershocks continued in the days that followed and hampered rescue work, and road damage made some areas difficult to reach.
Some 185,113 people are living away from home across seven regencies. That number is still rising rather than falling: thousands more left in the most recent daily count, because continuing aftershocks are keeping families out of houses that are damaged, and out of houses they no longer trust.
People affected
- Lives lost
- 103
- Injured
- 1,666
- Displaced
- 185,113
- Homes damaged
- 77,912
Current situation
As of 25 August, authorities report 77,912 homes damaged, 24,597 of them severely, along with 1,378 schools, 237 health facilities and 195 places of worship.
More than 185,000 people remain displaced. A small number — 237 survivors — have begun returning home where conditions allow, while 4,804 more were displaced on the same day.
7,029 aftershocks have been recorded, the strongest magnitude 6.2, and they are expected to continue for some weeks. These figures are provisional and are still being verified.
Pray for
- For those who lost family members in the earthquake and the tsunami
- For more than a thousand injured people and those treating them
- For families sheltering away from home while aftershocks continue
- For rescue teams working through aftershocks and damaged roads
- For children returning to damaged schools and disrupted communities
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