Earthquakes near Gunungsitoli, 1927–2026

It was also the deadliest: NOAA records 1,319 deaths for it. 6 earthquakes here in these years are on NOAA’s list of significant earthquakes. NOAA records deaths in 2 of the events here, 1,320 in all. The ten years with the most magnitude 6+ earthquakes were 1997–2006, with 7 of the 14. The latest on NOAA’s list is a magnitude 7.8 on April 6, 2010 (75 km E of Sinabang, Indonesia). NOAA lists 2 tsunamis from elsewhere that reached the coast within 100 km of Gunungsitoli with deaths or a metre of water or more. The highest water NOAA records here was 5.3 m, on December 26, 2004.

• April 6, 2010Earthquake · M 7.875 km E of Sinabang, IndonesiaUSGS · NOAA NCEI · Wikipedia
• March 28, 2005Earthquake · M 8.678 km WSW of Singkil, Indonesia · 1,319 deaths (NOAA)USGS · NOAA NCEI · Wikipedia
• December 26, 2004Tsunami · 5.3 m hereOff W. Coast Of SumatraNOAA NCEI · Wikipedia

• An event counts for Gunungsitoli 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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