Magnitude 7.7 quake off Flores: more than 100 dead, 1.6-metre tsunami

A magnitude 7.7 earthquake struck the sea north of Flores, Indonesia, on August 14 at 21:58 UTC (August 15 local time), at a depth of ten kilometres, about 68 kilometres north-northwest of Ende, USGS and Indonesia's BMKG reported.

The national disaster agency BNPB put the death toll at 105, while provincial authorities reported 111. 1,678 people were injured, 179,037 displaced and 81,436 homes damaged. The tsunami reached 1.61 metres at Reo.

Thousands of aftershocks

By August 26 there had been 7,787 aftershocks, the strongest of magnitude 6.2. The quake occurred on the Flores Back-Arc Thrust, the same fault that produced the devastating 1992 earthquake and tsunami that killed more than 2,000 people.