Earthquakes of magnitude 7.5 and above in Indonesia since 2000

Map of 13 locations in Indonesia

Indonesia sits along the Sunda Trench and the plate boundaries east of it, and the instrumental record since 2000 holds a long run of large shocks there, from deep Banda Sea ruptures felt only as cracked walls to megathrust events that moved the sea floor and sent water ashore. These are historical events, dated and located from the seismological catalogue, with the damage and casualty figures as contemporary agencies and press accounts recorded them. Several were followed by tsunamis; others happened too deep to do more than wake people.

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  • 2023 Tanimbar earthquake — The quake struck the Tanimbar region of eastern Indonesia on the Tuesday and prompted the Indonesian seismological agency BMKG to issue tsu…
  • 2018 Sulawesi earthquake — The shock struck on the Friday evening and was followed by a tsunami along the coasts of Palu and Donggala in Central Sulawesi, with runup…
  • 2010 Sinabang earthquake — The rupture was centred about 74 kilometres from Sinabang, in Aceh, and struck at 05:15 local time on 7 April. The available record gives t…
  • 2009 West Sumatra earthquake — The quake struck West Sumatra at 5:16pm local time, with the epicentre offshore southwest of Pariaman. The Ministry of Health's Crisis Cont…
  • 2009 Manokwari earthquake — The first of a series of shocks hit about 135 kilometres from Manokwari, the capital of West Papua, at 4:43am local time. Several storeys o…
  • 2007 Bengkulu earthquakes — The first and largest of a series of megathrust ruptures along the Sunda Trench off Sumatra, three of which reached magnitude 7 or greater,…
  • 2007 Java earthquake — The shock originated beneath Java at intermediate depth, inland of the island's north coast. The European Mediterranean Seismological Centr…
  • 2006 West Java earthquake — The epicentre lay in the Indian Ocean south of Singaparna, in West Java. The available record for it gives the location and the instrumenta…
  • 2006 Banda Sea earthquake — The quake struck the Banda Sea south of Ambon at 01:58 local time on 28 January, deep enough that it shook a wide area without causing majo…
  • 2004 Sumatra-Andaman earthquake — The rupture ran along roughly 1,600 kilometres of the boundary between the Indo-Australian and southeastern Eurasian plates, beginning off…
  • 2002 Manokwari earthquake — The epicentre lay south of the coastal town of Manokwari in western Papua, which an Indonesian meteorological and geophysics agency spokesm…
  • 2001 Kendari earthquake — The rupture was centred in the sea east of Kendari, in southeastern Sulawesi, at 4.102 south and 123.907 east. The catalogue records it as…
  • 2000 Enggano earthquake — The shock struck southern Sumatra and the southern Mentawai Islands at 23:28 WIB, with most of the damage falling on Bengkulu province. Of…

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