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Magnitude 5.9 earthquake strikes Indonesia's Flores, EMSC says
This is the third quake in less than a week in the Southeast Asian country
- PUBLISHED: Thu 20 Aug 2026, 7:23 AM
An earthquake of magnitude 5.9 struck the Flores region in Indonesia, the European-Mediterranean Seismological Centre (EMSC) said on Thursday.
The quake was at a depth of 10 km (6.21 mile), EMSC said.
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This is the third quake in less than a week in the Asian country.
A 7.7-magnitude earthquake struck Indonesia on Saturday, August 15, killing 53 people and injuring more than 100. Thousands of people were displaced by the powerful earthquake.
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It was followed by a magnitude 6.1 quake which struck off Indonesia's Sumatra island on Tuesday at a depth of 29 km (18 miles), the country's geophysics agency said.
Many Flores residents have traumatic memories of another 7.7-magnitude quake that hit the island in 1992, triggering a tsunami and killing about 2,500.