Media playback is unsupported on your device Media caption Dramatic video shows buildings being knocked down 
 
 More than 380 people have been confirmed dead after a tsunami triggered by a magnitude 7.5 earthquake hit an Indonesian city on Friday. 
 
 Waves up to 3m (10ft) high swept through Palu on Sulawesi island. 
 
 Video on social media shows people screaming and fleeing in panic and a mosque among the buildings damaged. 
 
 Strong aftershocks rocked the city on Saturday. Thousands of homes have collapsed, along with hospitals, hotels and a shopping centre. 
 
 Rescue efforts are under way, though hampered by a major power cut. The main road to Palu has been blocked due to a landslide, and a key bridge is out of action. 
 
 'Many bodies along the shoreline' 
 
 Indonesia's disaster agency said at least 384 people had been killed, but the number is expected to rise. At least 540 have been injured, and 29 are listed as missing. 
 
 Image copyright Reuters Image caption Locals check bodybags in the streets of Palu as they search for lost relatives 
 
 "Many bodies were found along the shoreline because of the tsunami, but the numbers are still unknown," Sutopo Purwo Nugroho, a spokesman for the agency, told Reuters. 
 
 "When the threat arose yesterday, people were still doing their activities on the beach and did not immediately run and they became victims," he told a news briefing. 
 
 "The tsunami didn't come by itself - it dragged cars, logs, houses - it hit everything on land." 
 
 Some survived by climbing 6m (18ft) trees to escape the huge waves, the spokesman said. 
 
 Image copyright Antara Foto/Rolex Malaha via Reuters Image caption Homes, hotels, and shopping centres have collapsed in the "extensive" damage, officials said 
 
 A less powerful quake earlier on Friday had killed at least one person and injured at least 10 in the smaller fishing town of Donggala. 
 
 In Palu, hundreds of people had been preparing for a beach festival that was due to start on Friday night. 
 
 The city's main hospital was damaged in the quake, and TV footage showed dozens of injured people being treated outside in makeshift medical tents. 
 
 Image copyright AFP/Getty Images Image caption Medical teams are treating patients in the open air 
 
 Image copyright AFP Image caption At least 384 people have been killed in the quake 
 
 Palu and Donggala are home to more than 600,000 people. President Joko Widodo said troops were en route to the area to reinforce rescue teams and help retrieve bodies. 
 
 The main airport in Palu has been closed since the tsunami hit. A minister said the runway had been damaged but that it was hoped helicopters would still be able to land. 
 
 The country's military is sending cargo planes of relief aid from the capital, Jakarta. 
 
 Officials are urging locals not to enter their homes and to sleep away from buildings, due to the risk of aftershocks. 
 
 Image copyright Antara Foto/Reuters Image caption Relief aid is packed into a military plane bound for Palu 
 
 Image copyright Reuters Image caption Indonesia's disaster agency said some people scaled trees to escape the huge waves 
 
 The earthquake hit just off central Sulawesi at a depth of 10km (6.2 miles) just before 18:00 on Friday (10:00 GMT), the US Geological Survey said. 
 
 A tsunami warning was issued, but lifted within the hour. Indonesia's meteorological agency has been criticised for its response, but officials said the waves struck while the warning was in place. 
 
 Dramatic video of the tsunami hitting Palu shows the high waves sweeping away several buildings and then the large tilted mosque in the town, about 80km from the quake's epicentre. 
 
 "The situation is chaotic, people are running on the streets and buildings collapsed. There is a ship washed ashore," said Dwikorita Karnawati, head of Indonesia's meteorology and geophysics agency. 
 
 A 2004 tsunami triggered by an earthquake off the Indonesian island of Sumatra killed 226,000 across the Indian Ocean, including more than 120,000 in Indonesia. 
 
 Indonesia is prone to earthquakes because it lies on the Ring of Fire - the line of frequent quakes and volcanic eruptions that circles virtually the entire Pacific rim. 
 
 More than half of the world's active volcanoes above sea level are part of the ring. 
 
 Just last month, a series of deadly earthquakes struck the Indonesian island of Lombok. The biggest, on 5 August, killed more than 460 people. ||||| Media playback is unsupported on your device Media caption Dramatic video shows buildings being knocked down 
 
 Strong aftershocks have continued to hit the Indonesian island of Sulawesi, where a major quake and tsunami killed at least 408 people and injured 500. 
 
 Dozens remain missing, some thought to be trapped in the debris of collapsed buildings in the city of Palu. 
 
 Bodies have been lying in city streets and the injured are being treated in tents because of damage to hospitals. 
 
 An air traffic controller at Palu airport died ensuring a plane took off safely after Friday's quake. 
 
 The scale of casualties and damage beyond the city is still unclear. 
 
 Anxious survivors in Palu bedded down in the open air on Saturday night, heeding advice by officials not to return to their homes as a precaution. Some buildings were completely flattened. 
 
 Image copyright Grant Dotulong Image caption It is feared people are trapped in the debris of Palu's Roa Roa Hotel 
 
 Indonesia is prone to earthquakes because it lies on the Ring of Fire - the line of frequent quakes and volcanic eruptions that circles virtually the entire Pacific rim. 
 
 In 2004, a tsunami triggered by an earthquake off the Indonesian island of Sumatra killed 226,000 people across the Indian Ocean, including more than 120,000 in Indonesia. 
 
 'We don't know their fate' 
 
 By Rebecca Henschke, BBC News, Sulawesi 
 
 As we travel to the area devastated by the huge quake and tsunami we are meeting people heading the same way desperate to find out the fate of their loved ones. 
 
 "I know I have already lost three family members," one man told me, "two of them elderly relatives but one was a young father." 
 
 Image copyright AFP Image caption This road near Palu was partially blocked by a landslide 
 
 Other members of his family are still missing. "We don't know their fate," he tells me. 
 
 The images of devastation coming out of Palu are all too eerily familiar to many Indonesians. They evoke memories of the devastating tsunami of 2004 that hit the province of Aceh. 
 
 Why were so many killed on Friday? 
 
 A 7.5 magnitude quake occurred at a shallow depth of 10km (6.2 miles) just off central Sulawesi at 18:03 (10:03 GMT), US monitors say. 
 
 A tsunami warning was issued but lifted within the hour. 
 
 Indonesia's meteorological agency has been criticised for its response but officials say the waves struck while the warning was in place. 
 
 People including dancers were still busy on the beach in Palu (population: 335,000), preparing for a festival, and were caught when waves up to 3m (10ft) in height swept in. 
 
 Image copyright EPA Image caption Palu's landmark Ponulele Bridge came down 
 
 Video on social media shows people screaming and fleeing in panic. 
 
 "The tsunami... dragged cars, logs, houses," Sutopo Purwo Nugroho, a spokesman for Indonesia's disaster agency, told Reuters news agency. "It hit everything on land." 
 
 Some people survived by climbing 6m (18ft) trees, he added. 
 
 As well as destroying homes, the quake wrecked a shopping centre, a mosque, a hotel and a road bridge. 
 
 Image copyright Reuters Image caption Homes were wiped away in Palu 
 
 Reports are still coming in of the impact of the disaster on communities further up the coast from Palu and closer to the quake's epicentre, including the smaller town of Donggala, where there was at least one death and 10 people were injured. 
 
 "We have heard nothing from Donggala and this is extremely worrying," the Red Cross said in a statement. 
 
 "This is already a tragedy, but it could get much worse." 
 
 What are survivors saying about their ordeal? 
 
 When the quake hit, "we all panicked and ran out of the house," Anser Bachmid, 39, told AFP news agency. "People here need aid - food, drink, clean water. We don't know what to eat for dinner tonight." 
 
 "I just ran when I saw the waves hitting homes on the coastline," Palu resident Rusidanto said. 
 
 Dwi Haris, who was in the city for a wedding, was staying in a hotel with his wife and daughter when the quake struck. 
 
 "There was no time to save ourselves," he told the Associated Press news agency. "I was squeezed into the ruins of the wall... I heard my wife cry for help but then silence. I don't know what happened to her and my child. I hope they are safe." 
 
 With back and shoulder injuries, he is being treated outdoors at Palu's Army Hospital. 
 
 What is being done to help? 
 
 Aid is being flown from the capital Jakarta into Palu airport, using the part of its runway still intact. 
 
 Some people injured or affected by the quake were evacuated on a military transport plane. 
 
 Patients are being treated in the open outside city hospitals and at least one military field hospital has been erected. 
 
 Outside one hospital, dead bodies were laid out in bags for relatives to come and look for loved ones. 
 
 Image copyright AFP Image caption People have been living out in the open since the quake in Palu 
 
 The regional head of the Indonesian Doctors Association (IDI), Komang, asked the authorities for immediate help. 
 
 "We need tents, medicines, medical personnel, tarpaulins, blankets and more of other things," he said. 
 
 Relief efforts are being hampered by power cuts and damage to roads and other infrastructure. 
 
 Image copyright EPA Image caption A field hospital is treating the injuring in Palu 
 
 The UK-based charity Save the Children is sending an assessment team to the disaster zone. 
 
 "Unfortunately the more information that we're getting, the worse the situation appears to be," charity spokesman Tom Howells told the BBC from Jakarta. 
 
 What happened at the airport? 
 
 Anthonius Gunawan Agung, 21, was the only person left in the airport's control tower after the earthquake, Australian broadcaster ABC reports. 
 
 Image copyright EPA Image caption The shattered tower at the airport 
 
 The rest had run for their lives when the tower started to sway but Mr Agung stayed behind to ensure Batik Air Flight 6321, which was on the runway, got away safely. 
 
 He then jumped from the fourth floor of the tower, fearing it was about to collapse, and was fatally injured. 
 
 Yohannes Sirait, spokesman for Air Navigation Indonesia, said he had potentially saved the lives of hundreds of people aboard the plane, losing his own in the process. 
 
 Colleagues paid tribute on Twitter, sharing photos of Mr Agung and soldiers carrying his covered body past a guard of honour. 
 
 In another development, more than half the 560 inmates at Palu's prison escaped after its walls collapsed, the Associated Press reports. 
 
 "It was very hard for the security guards to stop the inmates from running away as they were so panicked," said its warden, Adhi Yan Ricoh. 
 
 How big a hazard are quakes for Indonesia? 
 
 More than half of the world's active volcanoes above sea level are part of the Ring of Fire. 
 
 Just last month, a series of deadly earthquakes struck the Indonesian island of Lombok. The biggest, on 5 August, killed more than 460 people.
– The tsunami that killed hundreds, possibly thousands of people after an earthquake in Indonesia on Friday was much bigger and more devastating than would normally be expected after that kind of quake, scientists say. "We expected it might cause a tsunami, just not one that big," geophysicist Jason Patton tells the New York Times. Tsunamis like the 18-foot monster wave that wrecked cities on Sulawesi island are usually caused by "megathrust" earthquakes that move land vertically, not "strike-slip" quakes like the 7.5-magnitude one Friday, which moved the earth horizontally, Patton says. The Sulawesi event was, however, localized, unlike the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami. It may have been the case, Patton says, that massive undersea landslides created the tsunami, or that the narrow bay that Palu sits at the end of concentrated the wave's power. Indonesian authorities have been strongly criticized for apparently canceling the tsunami alert too early, though expert Adam Switzer at the Earth Observatory of Singapore tells the AP that this is unfair. "What it shows is that the tsunami models we have now are too simplistic," he says. "They don't take into account multiple events, multiple quakes within a short period of time. They don't take into account submarine landslides." The official death toll now stands at 844, though authorities, who have been preparing mass graves, have been unable to access some hard-hit areas, the Guardian reports.