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A magnitude 7.4 earthquake struck the Molucca Sea off eastern Indonesia on April 1, 2026, triggering tsunami warnings across the region and small waves recorded in North Maluku and North Sulawesi provinces. The event, which initially measured 7.8 before USGS revision, generated waves of up to 30 centimeters and caused building damage near Ternate, while drawing renewed scrutiny to Indonesia's long-broken tsunami buoy network, uneven building code enforcement, and the country's capacity to manage concurrent disaster responses while communities from the 2018 Sulawesi and 2022 Cianjur earthquakes remain incompletely recovered.