JAKARTA: A tsunami of up to 2m hit a small city on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi after a major 7.5 quake struck offshore, collapsing buildings and washing a vessel ashore, but there was no word on casualties, officials said.
Authorities received information yesterday that Palu had been hit, said Dwikorita Karnawati, who heads Indonesia’s meteorology and geophysics agency, BMKG, amid a rapid series of aftershocks.
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