Indonesia's disaster agency said on Aug. 27, 2026, that the death toll from the powerful earthquake that struck East Nusa Tenggara earlier in the month had risen to 111. More than 176,000 people remained displaced as relief operations continued across the province.
Berton Panjaitan, head of the communications centre at the National Disaster Management Agency, known as BNPB, said 176,621 people were staying in temporary shelters. The displacement followed the magnitude 7.7 earthquake that hit the region on Aug. 15.
The agency also put the number of injured people at 1,678. Damage assessments recorded more than 36,000 homes and public buildings affected across East Nusa Tenggara, a province that includes Labuan Bajo, one of Indonesia's prominent tourism centres. The supplied report did not provide a breakdown of how many structures were destroyed, rendered unsafe or sustained lesser damage.
Seismic activity had remained intense in the days after the main shock. According to Panjaitan, authorities recorded 8,193 aftershocks across the province. That figure illustrates the continuing operational challenge for residents, emergency workers and officials assessing damaged areas, although the evidence did not specify the strength of those subsequent tremors or whether they caused additional casualties.
Relief teams were continuing to distribute assistance in the hardest-hit locations. With more than 176,000 people in temporary accommodation, the response extended beyond search and rescue to shelter, supplies and support for communities unable to return home. The report did not state how long the displaced population was expected to remain in shelters or how many people had already been able to leave emergency accommodation. Shelter demand therefore remained widespread as authorities balanced urgent assistance with the longer work of repairing communities and restoring public buildings.
The updated figures marked a significant accounting of the human and physical effects twelve days after the earthquake. They also remained subject to further revision as officials worked through affected districts and consolidated information on deaths, injuries, displacement and building damage.
Indonesia regularly manages emergencies across an extensive island geography, but the supplied evidence focused specifically on this East Nusa Tenggara event and did not offer comparisons with earlier earthquakes. It also did not identify particular districts as the worst affected or give a detailed timetable for reconstruction.
As of the Aug. 27 event date, the clearest official picture was therefore a toll of 111 deaths and 1,678 injuries, with 176,621 people still in temporary shelters. Aid distribution and relief work remained under way, while thousands of aftershocks and damage to tens of thousands of structures complicated the province's recovery.
