Western Indonesia faced a tsunami after powerful earthquake that killed over 100 people and crashed many houses today.
It was 7.7 magnitude earthquake and it created tsunami upto 3 meters wave in sea.
Indonesia is already facing problem of most volatile volcano, Merapi, in central Java which was began erupting today.
Eruption of Mount Merapi killed at least 18 people, forced thousands to flee home after molten rocks and burning ashes covered the sky and earth on the island of Java.
Over 500 others also remained missing after the tsunami hit the island. The double calamity occurred in short span in the seismic prone island.
Police and volunteers were shown on Metro TV pulling at least 14 ash-covered bodies and carrying them to waiting vehicles.
Even as they contended with the volcano – one of 129 to watch in the world’s largest archipelago – officials were trying to assess the impact of Monday night’s 7.7-magnitude earthquake off Sumatra that triggered the killer tsunami.
The quake, some 13 miles (20 kilometers) beneath the ocean floor, was followed by at least 14 aftershocks, the largest measuring 6.2, according to the US Geological Survey.
Indonesia has already faced tsunami in 2004 that killed an estimated 167,736 in northern Sumatra.