Dead and wounded in earthquake with force 7.5 on Sulawesi

The Indonesian island of Sulawesi has been hit by two powerful earthquakes.

Due to the first earthquake, with a force of 6.1 on the Richter scale, several houses collapsed. Later a second quake followed the coast. It had a magnitude of 7.5, reports the US seismological institute USGS.

The Indonesian authorities initially came with a tsunami warning and called on residents of coastal areas to evacuate. That warning has since been withdrawn.

Due to a series of earthquakes, nearly five hundred people died on the holiday island of Lombok last month, a few hundred kilometers southwest of Sulawesi.