A 10-foot tsunami was triggered late Friday afternoon by a 7.5-magnitude earthquake and quickly hit the two cities and nearby settlements, about 800 miles northeast of Jakarta. A 10-foot tsunami was triggered late Friday afternoon by a 7.5-magnitude earthquake and quickly hit the two cities and nearby settlements, about 800 miles northeast of Jakarta. The dead, he said, either drowned when the tsunami hit or were killed by collapsed buildings and rubble. A 7.5-magnitude earthquake triggered a massive tsunami on Friday evening, which crashed into Palu, Donggala and the surrounding settlements. In December 2004, a 9.1-magnitude earthquake off Sumatra in western Indonesia triggered a tsunami that killed 230,000 people in a dozen countries.

Source: Washington Post September 30, 2018 08:01 UTC