Earthquakes near Madiun, 1927–2026

NOAA records deaths in 6 of the events here, 278 in all. NOAA lists 2 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. NOAA lists 6 significant eruptions of one volcano within 100 km of Madiun. The largest was Kelud on April 26, 1966, at 4 on the volcanic explosivity index. It killed 215 people by NOAA’s count.

• April 14, 2023Earthquake · M 7.0Java, IndonesiaUSGS
• June 2, 1994Tsunami · 5.5 m hereSouth Of JavaNOAA NCEI · Wikipedia
• April 26, 1966Eruption · VEI 4Kelud · 215 deaths (NOAA)NOAA NCEI · Wikipedia
• August 31, 1951Eruption · VEI 4Kelud · 7 deaths (NOAA)NOAA 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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