Gorontalo

Earthquakes near Gorontalo, 1927–2026

From 1927 to October 19, 2026, USGS recorded 30 earthquakes of magnitude 6 or more within 100 km of Gorontalo, or 200 km for magnitude 7 and above. 9 of them reached magnitude 7 or more; the strongest was a magnitude 8.1 on December 21, 1939 (1939 Sulawesi Earthquake).

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The last 30 days · as of

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

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What the record holds

The deadliest was not the strongest: a magnitude 7.6 on May 4, 2000 (89 km E of Luwuk, Indonesia), for which NOAA records 54 deaths. 7 earthquakes here in these years are on NOAA’s list of significant earthquakes. NOAA records deaths in 3 of the events here, 63 in all. The ten years with the most magnitude 6+ earthquakes were 1987–1996, with 10 of the 30. The latest on NOAA’s list is a magnitude 7.4 on November 16, 2008 (135 km NW of Gorontalo, Indonesia). NOAA lists one tsunami that began within 100 km of Gorontalo.

The events

  • November 16, 2008Earthquake · M 7.4135 km NW of Gorontalo, Indonesia · 6 deaths (NOAA)USGS · NOAA NCEI · Wikipedia
  • May 4, 2000Earthquake · M 7.689 km E of Luwuk, Indonesia · 54 deaths (NOAA)USGS · NOAA NCEI · Wikipedia
  • April 18, 1990Earthquake · M 7.875 km NNW of Gorontalo, Indonesia · 3 deaths (NOAA)USGS · NOAA NCEI
  • December 21, 1939Earthquake · M 8.11939 Sulawesi EarthquakeUSGS · NOAA NCEI
  • December 21, 1939TsunamiN. Moluccas IslandsNOAA NCEI

Good to know

  • An event counts for Gorontalo 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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