Rangkasbitung

Earthquakes near Rangkasbitung, 2017–2026

From 2017 to October 19, 2026, USGS recorded 42 earthquakes of magnitude 4.5 or more within 100 km of Rangkasbitung, or 200 km for magnitude 7 and above. None reached magnitude 6: the strongest was a magnitude 5.9 on January 23, 2018 (66 km W of Pelabuhanratu, 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 Rangkasbitung in the last 30 days.

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What the record holds

The deadliest was not the strongest: a magnitude 5.6 on November 21, 2022 (11 km NE of Sukabumi, Indonesia), for which NOAA records 635 deaths. 3 earthquakes here in these years are on NOAA’s list of significant earthquakes. NOAA records deaths in 3 of the events here, 1,073 in all. 13 came from 2022 on, against 29 in the five years before. NOAA lists one tsunami that began within 100 km of Rangkasbitung. The highest water NOAA records here was 85.27 m, on December 22, 2018. The deadliest, on December 22, 2018, killed 151 people here by NOAA’s runup records. NOAA lists one significant eruption of one volcano within 100 km of Rangkasbitung. The largest was Krakatau on December 22, 2018, at 4 on the volcanic explosivity index. It killed 437 people by NOAA’s count.

The events

  • November 21, 2022Earthquake · M 5.611 km NE of Sukabumi, Indonesia · 635 deaths (NOAA)USGS · NOAA NCEI · Wikipedia
  • December 22, 2018Tsunami · 85.27 m hereKrakatau · 151 deaths here (NOAA)NOAA NCEI · Wikipedia
  • December 22, 2018Eruption · VEI 4Krakatau · 437 deaths (NOAA)NOAA NCEI · Wikipedia
  • January 23, 2018Earthquake · M 5.966 km W of Pelabuhanratu, Indonesia · one death (NOAA)USGS · NOAA NCEI · Wikipedia

Good to know

  • An event counts for Rangkasbitung 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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