Earthquakes of magnitude 7.5 and above in Indonesia from 1950 to 1999

Map of 7 locations in Indonesia

Between 1950 and the end of the century, the seismic record for the Indonesian archipelago accumulated a long run of very large ruptures, from deep shocks beneath the Banda Sea to shallow offshore events that pushed tsunamis onto Flores, Sanana and Biak. These are those events as the catalogues and the contemporary record describe them, in the order they happened. Each pin marks where a documented earthquake originated.

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  • 1998 Luwuk earthquake — The shock was recorded on 29 November at 14:10 UTC, with the epicentre placed in the sea east southeast of Luwuk in Central Sulawesi at a s…
  • 1996 Biak earthquake — The rupture off the north coast of Papua sent waves onto Biak, where a run-up of 7.7 m was measured at Madori on the west coast and waves r…
  • 1994 Java earthquake — The rupture occurred on 2 June at 18:17 UTC off the southern coast of East Java, at a shallow depth, with the nearest settlement in the rec…
  • 1990 Gorontalo earthquake — The epicentre was placed 75 km north northwest of Gorontalo, off Sulawesi, on 18 April. Several houses and other buildings were damaged.
  • 1965 Ceram Sea earthquake — The epicentre lay just off the southwestern coast of Sanana Island in eastern Indonesia, on a convergent plate boundary. The rupture genera…
  • 1963 Banda Sea earthquake — The event is entered in the list of the year's earthquakes for 4 November, with an epicentre in the Banda Sea in eastern Indonesia and an i…
  • 1950 Banda Sea earthquake — The shock was logged on 2 November beneath the eastern Indonesian archipelago, far enough below the sea floor that the energy spread widely…

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