Earthquakes near Pamanukan through history

The deadliest was not the strongest: a magnitude 7 on September 2, 2009 (66 km SSW of Banjar, Indonesia), for which NOAA records 81 deaths. NOAA’s list of significant earthquakes has 9 here, back to 1690. NOAA records deaths in 5 of the events here, 95 in all. The latest on NOAA’s list is a magnitude 4.5 on January 1, 2024 (25 km NE of Lembang, Indonesia). NOAA’s record here begins in 1690 with an eruption (Guntur). 4 of the 9 significant earthquakes NOAA lists here came before 1927. NOAA lists 3 tsunamis that began within 100 km of Pamanukan, and one from elsewhere that reached it with deaths or a metre of water or more. The highest water NOAA records here was 1.5 m, on February 16, 1861. NOAA lists 7 significant eruptions of 3 volcanoes within 100 km of Pamanukan. The largest was Guntur in 1690, at 3 on the volcanic explosivity index.

• January 1, 2024Earthquake · M 4.525 km NE of Lembang, IndonesiaUSGS · NOAA NCEI
• September 2, 2009Earthquake · M 7.066 km SSW of Banjar, Indonesia · 81 deaths (NOAA)USGS · NOAA NCEI · Wikipedia
• August 8, 2007Earthquake · M 7.535 km NNE of Rengasdengklok, IndonesiaUSGS
• February 16, 1861Tsunami · 1.5 m hereSw. SumatraNOAA NCEI · Wikipedia
• August 24, 1757Earthquake · M 7.5 (est.)JakartaNOAA NCEI
• 1690Eruption · VEI 3GunturNOAA NCEI · Wikipedia

• An event counts for Pamanukan 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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