Overview
- A shallow magnitude 7.7 undersea quake struck off Flores early Saturday with an epicentre about 68 km north‑northwest of Ende and a USGS depth of roughly 10 km.
- Indonesia’s meteorological agency issued then lifted a tsunami warning after sea‑level monitors showed no large open‑ocean wave but recorded local pulses up to about 1.61 metres in some coastal villages.
- Rescuers have recovered dozens of bodies with official tallies rising to at least 51 and hundreds injured as search‑and‑rescue teams comb collapsed buildings and landslide sites.
- The quake flattened or damaged more than 1,300 homes and scores of public facilities, displaced several thousand people and forced mass evacuations into temporary shelters.
- Response efforts use helicopters, ships and thousands of personnel but are hampered by landslides, blocked roads, power and communications outages that leave remote communities hard to reach and slow damage assessments.