Earthquakes near Cirebon, 1927–2026

The deadliest was not the strongest: a magnitude 7 on September 2, 2009 (66 km SSW of Banjar, Indonesia), for which NOAA records 81 deaths. 8 earthquakes here in these years are on NOAA’s list of significant earthquakes. NOAA records deaths in 6 of the events here, 339 in all. The latest on NOAA’s list is a magnitude 4.5 on January 1, 2024 (25 km NE of Lembang, Indonesia). NOAA lists one tsunami from elsewhere that reached the coast within 100 km of Cirebon with deaths or a metre of water or more. The deadliest here came on July 17, 2006 from a magnitude 7.7 earthquake (South Of Java): NOAA’s runup records count 184 deaths within 100 km of Cirebon. NOAA lists one significant eruption of one volcano within 100 km of Cirebon. The largest was Galunggung on May 17, 1982, at 4 on the volcanic explosivity index. It killed 68 people by NOAA’s count.

• January 1, 2024Earthquake · M 4.525 km NE of Lembang, IndonesiaUSGS · NOAA NCEI
• 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 · 20.9 m highSouth Of Java · 184 deaths here (NOAA)NOAA NCEI · Wikipedia
• May 17, 1982Eruption · VEI 4Galunggung · 68 deaths (NOAA)NOAA NCEI · Wikipedia

• An event counts for Cirebon 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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