A tsunami of up to two metres has hit a small city on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi, collapsing buildings and washing a vessel onto land, after a magnitude-7.5 quake struck offshore, but there has been no word on casualties, officials say.
Authorities received information that Palu had been hit amid a rapid series of aftershocks, Dwikorita Karnawati, who heads Indonesia’s meteorology and geophysics agency, BMKG, said.
“The 1.5 to two-metre tsunami has receded, it ended,” Ms Karnawati said.
Indonesian disaster agency spokesman Sutopo Purwo Nugroho said houses were swept away by the tsunami and families had been reported missing.
He said communications with central Sulawesi were down, and the search and rescue effort was being hampered by darkness.
