A strong earthquake destroyed buildings and triggered landslides in the Maluku Islands in Indonesia's east on Thursday morning, leaving at least one person dead, Aljazeera said.
Terrified people ran into the streets as buildings fell in around them after the magnitude 6.5 earthquake hit at around 8:45 local time (00:45 GMT).
An official from the local search and rescue agency said one man died after falling off his motorbike while trying to flee to higher ground, while another person was missing after being buried in a landslide.
People in Ambon, a city of about 400,000 people and the capital of Maluku, were seen helping injured residents. Images showed wrecked homes with collapsed walls and rubble strewn on the ground, but the extent of the damage was not immediately clear.
"The impact was felt across Ambon city and surrounding areas," said Rahmat Triyono, head of the earthquake and tsunami division at Indonesia's Meteorology, Climatology and Geophysics Agency (BMKG).
"Many people were woken up by the shaking...it felt like a truck was passing by."
Parts of a building at an Islamic university collapsed, local disaster official Albert Simaela told the Associated Press. Simaela said a main hospital in the city had also been damaged and the patients evacuated to outdoor tents in the hospital's yard.
The earthquake was centred 37 kilometres (23 miles) northeast of Ambon at a depth of 29 kilometres (18 miles), the US Geological Survey said.