Parepare

Earthquakes near Parepare through history

From 1900 to October 19, 2026, USGS recorded 2 earthquakes of magnitude 6 or more within 100 km of Parepare, or 200 km for magnitude 7 and above. The strongest was a magnitude 7.1 on February 23, 1969 (41 km NNW of Majene, Indonesia).

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The last 30 days · as of

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

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What the record holds

It was also the deadliest: NOAA records 664 deaths for it. NOAA’s list of significant earthquakes has 6 here, back to 1820. NOAA records deaths in 6 of the events here, 1,265 in all. The latest on NOAA’s list is a magnitude 5.2 on November 24, 2006 (Sulawesi: Pinrang). NOAA’s record here begins on December 29, 1820 with a tsunami (Flores Sea). NOAA lists one tsunami that began within 100 km of Parepare, and one from elsewhere that reached it with deaths or a metre of water or more. The highest water NOAA records here was 25 m, on December 29, 1820. The deadliest here came on December 29, 1820 from a magnitude 7.5 earthquake (Flores Sea): NOAA’s runup records count 500 deaths within 100 km of Parepare.

The events

  • November 24, 2006Earthquake · M 5.2Sulawesi: PinrangNOAA NCEI
  • January 8, 1984Earthquake · M 7.018 km SSW of Mamuju, Indonesia · 2 deaths (NOAA)USGS · NOAA NCEI
  • February 23, 1969Earthquake · M 7.141 km NNW of Majene, Indonesia · 664 deaths (NOAA)USGS · NOAA NCEI · Wikipedia
  • January 8, 1964Earthquake · M 5.2Sulawesi: Pinrang · 8 deaths (NOAA)NOAA NCEI
  • December 29, 1820Tsunami · 25 m hereFlores Sea · 500 deaths here (NOAA)NOAA NCEI

Good to know

  • An event counts for Parepare 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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