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Indonesia Disaster Resistance Agency said on the 29th that the magnitude 7.7 earthquake and the tsunami triggered by Indonesian Central Sulawesi Province on the 528th have killed 48 people.
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According to an earlier report by the Associated Press, the Indonesian Earthquake Physical Bureau said that a magnitude 7.7 earthquake occurred in Indonesian Sulawesi Province on the afternoon of the afternoon of the afternoon of the 18th, which then triggered a large-scale tsunami.
The Associated Press quoted a spokesperson for the Indonesian National Disaster Reduction Agency as saying that the earthquake triggered a tsunami that hit Palu, the capital of Central Sulawesi Province, and another city in Donggala. He said in a local live television interview that the tsunami swept away some houses and there were reports of missing persons. He said that communications with the Central Sulawesi region were interrupted, and the search and rescue work was blocked due to the darkness of the sky.
AFP quoted Triono, head of the earthquake and tsunami department of the Disaster Reduction Agency, as saying that the tsunami has arrived in Palu. Palu is nearly 80 kilometers away from the earthquake's epicenter and has a population of about 350,000.
According to Xinhua News Agency, several earthquakes occurred in Central Sulawesi Province, Indonesia on the afternoon of the 28th, killing at least one person, injuring 10 people and damage to hundreds of houses.
According to the website of the Indonesian Meteorological, Climate and Geophysical Bureau, a magnitude 7.7 earthquake occurred in Indonesia at 17:02 Jakarta time (18:02 Beijing time). The epicenter was located in the land of Dongjiala County, Central Sulawesi Province, with an earthquake depth of 11 kilometers.
(Source: Xinhua News Agency, Overseas Network)
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