Earthquakes near Bogor through history

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. NOAA’s list of significant earthquakes has 12 here, back to 1722. NOAA records deaths in 6 of the events here, 729 in all. NOAA’s record here begins in October 1722 with an earthquake (Java: Djakarta (Jakarta)). 6 of the 12 significant earthquakes NOAA lists here came before 1927. NOAA lists 2 tsunamis that began within 100 km of Bogor, and 2 from elsewhere that reached it with deaths or a metre of water or more. The highest water NOAA records here was 2.58 m, on August 27, 1883. NOAA lists 4 significant eruptions of 2 volcanoes within 100 km of Bogor. The largest was Tangkuban Parahu on May 27, 1846, at 2 on the volcanic explosivity index.

• November 21, 2022Earthquake · M 5.611 km NE of Sukabumi, Indonesia · 635 deaths (NOAA)USGS · NOAA NCEI · Wikipedia
• August 8, 2007Earthquake · M 7.535 km NNE of Rengasdengklok, IndonesiaUSGS
• August 27, 1883Tsunami · 2.58 m hereKrakatauNOAA NCEI
• May 27, 1846Eruption · VEI 2Tangkuban ParahuNOAA NCEI · Wikipedia
• August 24, 1757Earthquake · M 7.5 (est.)JakartaNOAA NCEI
• October 1722EarthquakeJava: Djakarta (Jakarta)NOAA NCEI

• An event counts for Bogor 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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