{"id":53116,"date":"2026-08-16T09:07:19","date_gmt":"2026-08-16T03:22:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/?p=53116"},"modified":"2026-08-16T09:07:19","modified_gmt":"2026-08-16T03:22:19","slug":"at-least-47-dead-in-eastern-indonesia-after-magnitude-7-7-quake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/at-least-47-dead-in-eastern-indonesia-after-magnitude-7-7-quake\/","title":{"rendered":"At least 47 dead in eastern Indonesia after magnitude 7.7 quake"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>Reuters : At least 47 people were killed after a magnitude 7.7 earthquake and dozens of aftershocks struck off \u200beastern Indonesia on Saturday, the National Disaster Mitigation Agency (BNPB) said in its latest statement.<\/p>\n<p>Rescue teams have yet to reach Nagekeo, the region \u200cclosest to the epicentre, after landslides blocked roads and disrupted communications, officials said.<\/p>\n<p>Tsunami waves of less than 1 metre (3 feet) were recorded in several areas of the \u200bSoutheast Asian nation after the early-morning quake. Authorities lifted a tsunami warning about three hours later.<br \/>\nEarlier, rescuers in the port town of Maumere found \u200b20 dead, six injured and two people trapped under rubble, said Fathur Rahman, head of the city&#8217;s rescue agency. Maumere \u2060is the main town in Sikka Regency on Flores Island in eastern Indonesia.<\/p>\n<p>Suharyanto, head of the BNPB, earlier said residents remained trapped in several buildings across the \u200baffected area, while there were reports of landslides blocking a number of roads.Teams have yet to reach Nagekeo and mobile communications in the region were affected, Fathur \u200btold Reuters earlier. Attempts to reach the area by road were thwarted by landslides, while another team was trying to reach it by ferry, he said.<\/p>\n<p>About 2,000 residents in Nagekeo evacuated, and damage was reported to homes, warehouses and government buildings, the BNPB said. Authorities also reported power outages and traffic congestion in parts of the regency.<\/p>\n<p>East Nusa Tenggara Governor Emanuel Melkiades \u200bLaka Lena told a press conference that at least five people were killed when buildings collapsed as they slept.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reuters : At least 47 people were killed after a magnitude 7.7 earthquake and dozens of aftershocks struck off \u200beastern Indonesia on Saturday, the National Disaster Mitigation Agency (BNPB) said in its latest statement. Rescue teams have yet to reach Nagekeo, the region \u200cclosest to the epicentre, after landslides blocked roads and disrupted communications, officials [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":53059,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53116"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53116"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53116\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53118,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53116\/revisions\/53118"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53059"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}