Earthquakes near Mataram, 2017–2026

The one on August 5, 2018 was the deadliest: NOAA records 560 deaths for it. 9 earthquakes here in these years are on NOAA’s list of significant earthquakes. NOAA records deaths in 8 of the events here, 606 in all. 2018 had the most magnitude 4.5+ earthquakes: 94 of the 130. 62 came in the 30 days after the strongest, within 150 km of it. The latest on NOAA’s list is a magnitude 4.9 on September 7, 2024 (11 km NE of Ubud, Indonesia). NOAA lists 3 tsunamis that began within 100 km of Mataram. The highest water NOAA records here was 2.5 m, on July 28, 2018.

• September 7, 2024Earthquake · M 4.911 km NE of Ubud, Indonesia · one death (NOAA)USGS · NOAA NCEI
• August 19, 2018Earthquake · M 6.920 km NNW of Labuan Lombok, Indonesia · 11 deaths (NOAA)USGS · NOAA NCEI · Wikipedia
• August 5, 2018Earthquake · M 6.936 km NW of Labuan Lombok, Indonesia · 560 deaths (NOAA)USGS · NOAA NCEI · Wikipedia
• July 28, 2018Tsunami · 2.5 m hereBali SeaNOAA NCEI · Wikipedia

• An event counts for Mataram 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 are its ComCat catalogue’s earthquakes of magnitude 4.5 or more, aftershocks included.
• 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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