A tsunami warning was issued after a strong Indonesia earthquake struck the Flores region on Saturday, with the event finally settled at magnitude 7.7 after several changes in the reported reading. The quake hit at 5:58 a.m. local time, at a depth of 35 km.
That sequence matters because the first number attached to a fast-moving quake can shape how people react, and this one moved from 7.5 to 6.9, then back to 7.5 before ending at 7.7. A tsunami evaluation was conducted before the warning was issued, showing that the decision was based on the scale of the shaking rather than on a single early reading.
The European-Mediterranean Seismological Centre reported the quake, and the warning followed a morning event intense enough to keep attention fixed on the same stretch of the Flores region. For people in Indonesia, the timing was immediate: the quake struck at 5:58 a.m. local time, which was 12:58 a.m. Israel time, while the warning was still being assessed.
A second earthquake then followed in the same region at 6:13 a.m. local time, or 1:13 a.m. Israel time. That later quake was measured at magnitude 6.3, adding another jolt soon after the first and deepening the uncertainty around how the morning would unfold.
What remains unknown is whether the tsunami warning led to evacuations, damage, or casualties in the Flores region. The facts on hand show a powerful quake, a warning, a revised magnitude, and then another tremor minutes later, but they do not yet show how far the disruption went on the ground.
