Earthquakes near Madiun through history

NOAA’s list of significant earthquakes has 1 here, back to 1311. NOAA records deaths in 11 of the events here, 15,466 in all. The latest on NOAA’s list is an estimated magnitude 7 on January 4, 1840 (Java: Purworejo). NOAA’s record here begins in 1311 with an eruption (Kelud). NOAA lists 3 tsunamis from elsewhere that reached the coast within 100 km of Madiun with deaths or a metre of water or more. The highest water NOAA records here was 5.5 m, on June 2, 1994. The deadliest here came on October 20, 1859 from South Of Java: NOAA’s runup records count 2 deaths within 100 km of Madiun. NOAA lists 18 significant eruptions of one volcano within 100 km of Madiun. The largest was Kelud in 1586, at 5 on the volcanic explosivity index. It killed 10,000 people by NOAA’s count.

• April 14, 2023Earthquake · M 7.0Java, IndonesiaUSGS
• June 2, 1994Tsunami · 5.5 m hereSouth Of JavaNOAA NCEI · Wikipedia
• September 10, 1926Earthquake · M 7.1138 km SSE of Pundong, IndonesiaUSGS
• October 20, 1859TsunamiSouth Of Java · 2 deaths here (NOAA)NOAA NCEI
• January 4, 1840Earthquake · M 7.0 (est.)Java: PurworejoNOAA NCEI
• 1586Eruption · VEI 5Kelud · 10,000 deaths (NOAA)NOAA NCEI · Wikipedia
• 1311Eruption · VEI 3KeludNOAA NCEI · Wikipedia

• An event counts for Madiun 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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