Bukittinggi

Earthquakes near Bukittinggi through history

From 1900 to October 19, 2026, USGS recorded 10 earthquakes of magnitude 6 or more within 100 km of Bukittinggi, or 200 km for magnitude 7 and above. 4 of them reached magnitude 7 or more; the strongest on either list was an estimated magnitude 8 on February 10, 1797.

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The last 30 days · as of

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

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What the record holds

The deadliest was not the strongest: a magnitude 7.6 on September 30, 2009 (30 km WSW of Pariaman, Indonesia), for which NOAA records 1,117 deaths. NOAA’s list of significant earthquakes has 11 here, back to 1797. NOAA records deaths in 11 of the events here, 1,768 in all. The latest on NOAA’s list is a magnitude 6.1 on February 25, 2022 (65 km NNW of Bukittinggi, Indonesia). NOAA’s record here begins on February 10, 1797 with an earthquake. 4 of the 11 significant earthquakes NOAA lists here came before 1927. NOAA lists one tsunami that began within 100 km of Bukittinggi, and one from elsewhere that reached it with deaths or a metre of water or more. It reached 0.27 m, on September 30, 2009. The deadliest here came on February 10, 1797 from a magnitude 8 earthquake (Sw. Sumatra): NOAA’s runup records count 300 deaths within 100 km of Bukittinggi. NOAA lists 5 significant eruptions of one volcano within 100 km of Bukittinggi. The largest was Marapi in January 1975, at 2 on the volcanic explosivity index. It killed 80 people by NOAA’s count.

The events

Good to know

  • An event counts for Bukittinggi 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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