Jember

Earthquakes near Jember, 1927–2026

USGS recorded no earthquake of magnitude 6 or more within 100 km of Jember from 1927 to October 19, 2026. NOAA’s list of significant earthquakes has 2 within 100 km of Jember in these years.

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

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What the record holds

The strongest was a magnitude 4.8 on September 9, 2007 (Situbondo). The deadliest was not the strongest: an earthquake on May 29, 2020 (Java: Ijen), for which NOAA records one death. NOAA records deaths in 20 of the events here, 894 in all. NOAA lists one tsunami that began within 100 km of Jember, and 2 from elsewhere that reached it with deaths or a metre of water or more. The highest water NOAA records here was 13.9 m, on June 2, 1994. The deadliest here came on June 2, 1994 from a magnitude 7.8 earthquake (South Of Java): NOAA’s runup records count 238 deaths within 100 km of Jember. NOAA lists 24 significant eruptions of 3 volcanoes within 100 km of Jember. The largest was Semeru on December 4, 2021, at 4 on the volcanic explosivity index. The deadliest was Semeru on May 14, 1981, which killed 372 people by NOAA’s count.

The events

  • December 4, 2021Eruption · VEI 4Semeru · 45 deaths (NOAA)NOAA NCEI · Wikipedia
  • May 29, 2020EarthquakeJava: Ijen · one death (NOAA)NOAA NCEI
  • September 9, 2007Earthquake · M 4.8SitubondoNOAA NCEI
  • June 2, 1994Tsunami · 13.9 m hereSouth Of Java · 238 deaths here (NOAA)NOAA NCEI · Wikipedia
  • May 14, 1981Eruption · VEI 3Semeru · 372 deaths (NOAA)NOAA NCEI · Wikipedia

Good to know

  • An event counts for Jember 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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