At least 220 people are dead and hundreds more are injured or missing after a tsunami battered the Sunda Strait which separaets the Indonesian islands of Java and Sumatra.
Indonesia’s National Disaster Mitigation Agency said no Tsunami warning was triggered.
Officials say it was probably caused a succession of underwater landslides, brought on by the eruption of Anak Krakatoa volcano.
Coastal towns were hit by large waves which damaged or destroyed at least nine hotels, dozens of seafront restaurants and about 600 homes.
The coast is dotted with beach towns popular with weekend tourists from Jakarta including Carita, which was hard hit.
In Tanjung Lesung, a concert by Indonesian pop band Seventeen was swamped by waves.
At least two members of the band died along with their road manager, while two others are missing.
No foreign tourists were reported injured or missing, authorities said.
The tsunami struck just a couple of days after Indonesia’s Volcanology and Geological Hazard Mitigation Agency warned that 20 volcanoes across the country were experiencing above average seismic activity.
Anak Krakatoa is the offspring of the infamous Krakatoa Volcano which blew itself to smithereens in 1883 causing a tsunami which killed an estimated 36,000.
The explosion was so violent is was reportedly heard 3,000 miles away.
