Banyuwangi

Earthquakes near Banyuwangi, 1927–2026

From 1927 to October 19, 2026, USGS recorded 2 earthquakes of magnitude 6 or more within 100 km of Banyuwangi, or 200 km for magnitude 7 and above. None reached magnitude 7: the strongest was a magnitude 6.5 on July 14, 1976 (6 km WNW of Seririt, Indonesia).

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The last 30 days · as of

USGS recorded no earthquake of magnitude 4.5 or more within 100 km of Banyuwangi in the last 30 days.

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What the record holds

It was also the deadliest: NOAA records 573 deaths for it. 6 earthquakes here in these years are on NOAA’s list of significant earthquakes. NOAA records deaths in 5 of the events here, 811 in all. The latest on NOAA’s list is an earthquake on May 29, 2020 (Java: Ijen). NOAA lists one tsunami that began within 100 km of Banyuwangi, and 2 from elsewhere that reached it with deaths or a metre of water or more. The highest water NOAA records here was 13.9 m, on June 2, 1994. The deadliest here came on June 2, 1994 from a magnitude 7.8 earthquake (South Of Java): NOAA’s runup records count 232 deaths within 100 km of Banyuwangi. NOAA lists 3 significant eruptions of one volcano within 100 km of Banyuwangi.

The events

Good to know

  • An event counts for Banyuwangi 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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