At least 384 people are confirmed dead and the number expected to rise after a another tsunami ripped through the Pacific Ring of Fire and crashed into an Indonesian coast city on Friday.
Indonesian media, citing national disaster agency, said Saturday that almost 400 people had died in Palu City, on the the Indonesian island of Sulawesi. Around 540 are reported injured.
Many of those killed swept away by giant waves up to six metres (18 feet) high as they played on the beach in the scenic tourist town.
Medical team members help patients outside a hospital. Rescuers scrambled to reach tsunami-hit central Indonesia and assess the damage after a strong quake brought down several buildings and sent locals fleeing their homes for higher ground
The number of casualties was no doubt worsened by the fact that hundreds of people had descended on Palu's beach for a festival which was due to take place on Friday evening to celebrate the city's anniversary
People walk amid the debris of falling buildings including the ruins of a shop on the beach after a tsunami hit in Palu
Thousands of buildings were swept away or demolished, leaving scores of families missing among the debris.
The number of casualties was no doubt worsened by the fact that hundreds of people had descended on Palu's beach for a festival to celebrate the city's anniversary. The festival was due to start Friday night.
'When the (tsunami) threat arose yesterday, people were still doing their activities on the beach and did not immediately run and they became victims,' Sutopo Purwo Nugroho, spokesman of Indonesia's disaster mitigation agency BNPB said in news briefing in Jakarta.
The National Disaster Mitigation Agency warned early on of reports showing that 'victims died in the rubble of a collapsed building'
A woman cries as people begin to realise the extent of the damage and the number of casualties after an earthquake and a tsunami hit Palu
Medical team members help patients outside an Indonesian hospital after an earthquake and a tsunami hit Palu and sent locals fleeing their homes
Some people climbed six metre (18 feet) trees to escape the tsunami and survived, Nugroho said.
A 6.1 magnitude quake hit Indonesia's densely populated region on Friday morning, quickly followed by even fiercer 7.5 magnitude tremors which caused the terrifying waves.
The National Disaster Mitigation Agency warned early on of reports showing that 'victims died in the rubble of a collapsed building'
People in Palu, Indonesia carry the body of one of the around 400 tsunami victims amid debris and rubble caused by the colossal waves
A man carries the body of a child who was killed in the tsunami. Rescue efforts have been hindered by power outage on the Island
The ruins and debris at the coast of Palu, a city in the central Indonesian Island of Sulawesi, the day after the tsunami. People began clearing the site and covering the bodies (blue cover) of the victims
The wreckage of a department store building in Palu city after a powerful earthquake rocked the Indonesian island of Sulawesi on Friday, triggering a 10ft tall tsunami that an officials said swept away houses
A car which was swept away by 10ft high waves during the tsunami is seen stuck under a damaged building in Palu, Central Sulawesi
Strong aftershocks continued to rock the coastal city of Palu on Saturday morning, which is home to about 350,000 people on the coast of Sulawesi island.
Photographs from the city showed showed bodies being lined up along the street on Saturday, some in bags and some with their faces covered with clothes.
Dramatic video footage filmed from the top floor of a parking ramp spiral in Palu and posted on Twitter, showed a showed a wall of whitewater crashing into houses along the shoreline, scattering shipping containers and flattening a large mosque.
Nugroho described the damage as 'extensive' with thousands of houses, hospitals, shopping malls and hotels collapsed, a bridge washed away and the main highway to Palu cut due to a landslide.
Bodies of some victims were found trapped under the rubble of collapsed buildings, he said. Injured people were being treated in makeshift medical tents set up outdoors, TV images showed.
The quake and tsunami caused a major power outage that cut communications around Palu and on Saturday authorities were still having difficulties coordinating rescue efforts, which were also hampered overnight by darkness
Palu which is home to around 350,000 showed partially covered bodies on the ground near the shore
A man stands amid the damage caused by the tsunami. Debris litters the ground and several buildings have caved in, while a car has flipped over
Footage posted on Twitter show the five-foot-high wave approaching the shore and breaking over buildings
Houses along the coastline in the Indonesian city of Palu were submerged as the waves battered the shore
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Indonesia's meteorological and geophysics agency BMKG issued a tsunami warning after the quake, but lifted it 34 minutes later.
The agency has been widely criticised for not informing a tsunami had hit Palu on Saturday, though officials said waves had come within the time the warning was issued.
The quake and tsunami caused a major power outage that cut communications around Palu and on Saturday authorities were still having difficulties coordinating rescue efforts, which was also hampered overnight by darkness.
The disaster mitigation agency has not been able to get any information from the fishing town of Donggala, closer to the epicentre of the quake 27 km (16 miles) away. More than 600,000 people live in Donggala and Palu.
Chief security minister Wiranto told TVOne the military had started sending in cargo planes from the capital Jakarta carrying relief aid.
The city's airport remained closed after its runway and air traffic control tower was damaged in the quake but officials said they were preparing to reopen to allow aid to come in.
Nugroho, spokesman for the disaster mitigation agency, said no command centre for disaster recovery has been created yet.
Indonesia sits on the Pacific Ring of Fire and is regularly hit by earthquakes. In August, a series of major quakes killed over 500 people in the tourist island of Lombok and destroyed dozens of villages along its northern coast.
In 2004, a big earthquake off the northern Indonesian island of Sumatra triggered a tsunami across the Indian Ocean, killing 226,000 people in 13 countries, including more than 120,000 in Indonesia. Palu was hit by tsunami in 1927 and 1968, according to BNPB.
Pictures showed emergency services rushing to deal with the casualties in the wake of the quake and then the tsunami
The Indonesian government confirmed houses had collapsed and families were missing as darkness hampered rescue efforts on Friday evening
'Residents panicked and scattered out of their homes.'
The U.S. Geological Survey put the magnitude of the second quake at a strong 7.5, after first saying it was 7.7.
An earlier 6.1 magnitude quake destroyed some houses, killing one person and injuring at least 10, authorities said.
'The quake was felt very strongly, we expects more damage and more victims,' Nugroho said.
A series of earthquakes in July and August killed nearly 500 people on the holiday island of Lombok, hundreds of kilometres southwest of Sulawesi.
A collapsed shopping mall in the center of Palu city after a 7.5 magnitude earthquake struck on Friday evening
A man receiving emergency medical treatment after the 6.1 magnitude quake struck on Friday morning
Several houses were said to have collapsed in the earlier quake, although it is not yet known what damage has been caused by the 7.5 magnitude tremor
The Indonesian National Search and Rescue Agency (BASARNAS) rescuers rescuers bodies of the victims at Wina beach after a 7.7 magnitude earthquake and tsunami in Palu, Central Sulawesi, Indonesia
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