Earthquakes near Bandung, 1927–2026

The deadliest was not the strongest: a magnitude 5.6 on November 21, 2022 (11 km NE of Sukabumi, Indonesia), for which NOAA records 635 deaths. 10 earthquakes here in these years are on NOAA’s list of significant earthquakes. NOAA records deaths in 9 of the events here, 983 in all. The latest on NOAA’s list is a magnitude 5 on September 18, 2024 (15 km ESE of Banjar, Indonesia). NOAA lists one tsunami from elsewhere that reached the coast within 100 km of Bandung with deaths or a metre of water or more. The highest water NOAA records here was 3.88 m, on July 17, 2006. The deadliest here came on July 17, 2006 from a magnitude 7.7 earthquake (South Of Java): NOAA’s runup records count 183 deaths within 100 km of Bandung. NOAA lists 3 significant eruptions of 3 volcanoes within 100 km of Bandung. The largest was Galunggung on May 17, 1982, at 4 on the volcanic explosivity index. It killed 68 people by NOAA’s count.

• September 18, 2024Earthquake · M 5.015 km ESE of Banjar, Indonesia · 2 deaths (NOAA)USGS · NOAA NCEI
• November 21, 2022Earthquake · M 5.611 km NE of Sukabumi, Indonesia · 635 deaths (NOAA)USGS · NOAA NCEI · Wikipedia
• September 2, 2009Earthquake · M 7.066 km SSW of Banjar, Indonesia · 81 deaths (NOAA)USGS · NOAA NCEI · Wikipedia
• August 8, 2007Earthquake · M 7.535 km NNE of Rengasdengklok, IndonesiaUSGS
• July 17, 2006Tsunami · 3.88 m hereSouth Of Java · 183 deaths here (NOAA)NOAA NCEI · Wikipedia
• May 17, 1982Eruption · VEI 4Galunggung · 68 deaths (NOAA)NOAA NCEI · Wikipedia

• An event counts for Bandung when it began within 100 km of its centre, or 200 km for an earthquake of magnitude 7 or more. Damage can reach further.
• USGS counts here start at magnitude 6: the catalogue’s smaller quakes thin out going back, where few instruments listened.
• NOAA lists significant events only: earthquakes that killed, did about $1 million of damage, reached magnitude 7.5 or intensity X, or raised a tsunami, and eruptions and tsunamis by like measures. Magnitudes before 1900 are its estimates from written accounts.
• Deaths are NOAA’s total for each event, wherever people died, its tsunami and fires included. A tsunami counts the dead its runup records give for this place: NOAA’s total for a tsunami includes its source quake’s.
• A tsunami from elsewhere counts where one of its runups killed or rose a metre or more.
• Counted to October 19, 2026, as is the map. The last 30 days ask USGS again.

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