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A magnitude-7.7 earthquake strikes off the coast of Flores, Indonesia, causing at least 53 deaths. · Spoken News

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  Speaker 1: Welcome to spoken News, where Wikipedia excerpts are read verbatim
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  by a computer. A magnitude seven point seven earthquake strikes
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  off the coast of Floras, Indonesia, causing at least fifty
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  three deaths. On the fifteenth of August twenty twenty six,
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  at five fifty eight wida AMW seven point seven earthquake
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  struck off the coast of the island of Flores in
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  East Nusa Tengara, Indonesia. At least sixty eight people were
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  killed and two hundred thirteen others were injured. The earthquake
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  also generated tsunamis that reached up to one point sixty
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  one meters in height. Flores is one of the Lesser
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  Sunda Islands, a group of islands in the eastern half
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  of Indonesia. Administratively, it forms the largest island in the
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  East Nusa Tengara Province. The area is fourteen thousand, two
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  hundred fifty square kilometers, similar to Shikoku or Jamaica, including
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  Komodo and Rinca Islands off its west coast. The population
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  was one million, eight hundred seventy eight thousand, eight hundred
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  seventy five in the twenty twenty census. The official estimate
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  as of mid twenty twenty four was two million, fourteen thousand,
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  one hundred ten. The largest towns are Ende and Momeer.
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  The name Flores is of Portuguese origin, meaning flowers. Flores
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  is located east of Sumbawa and the Komodo Islands and
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  west of the Solar Islands and the Alor Archipelago. To
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  the southeast is Timor, to the south across the Sumba
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  Strait is Sumba Island, and to the north beyond the
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  Flores Sea is Sulawesi. Among all islands containing Indonesian territory,
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  Flores is the tenth most populous after Java, Sumatra, Borneo, Sulawesi,
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  New Guinea, Bali, Madura, Lombach and Timor, and also the
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  tenth biggest island of Indonesia. Flores is among the forty
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  most populous islands in the world, with a population similar
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  to Manhattan or Shimen. Until the arrival of modern humans,
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  Flores was inhabited by Homo flo orasiensis a small archaic human.
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