Houses on stilts, Riung, island of Flores, Indonesia, Southeast Asia. Photo by Robert Harding Heritage via AFP
A powerful earthquake struck off the coast of Indonesia early on Saturday, followed by several aftershocks, triggering an early tsunami warning by the country's geophysics agency.
The European-Mediterranean Seismological Center recorded a quake of magnitude 7.7 around 4:58 a.m. local time at a depth of 35 km, followed by at least three aftershocks.Indonesia's geophysics agency BMKG issued an early tsunami warning for some regions in the country.Separately, Australia's tsunami warning center said the undersea earthquake will have "no tsunami threat to the Australian mainland, islands or territories."
