Serang

Earthquakes near Serang through history

From 1900 to October 19, 2026, USGS recorded 13 earthquakes of magnitude 6 or more within 100 km of Serang, or 200 km for magnitude 7 and above. 3 of them reached magnitude 7 or more; the strongest was a magnitude 7.5, three times, most recently on August 8, 2007 (35 km NNE of Rengasdengklok, 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 Serang in the last 30 days.

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What the record holds

NOAA’s list of significant earthquakes has 8 here, back to AD 416. NOAA records deaths in 5 of the events here, 36,862 in all. The latest on NOAA’s list is a magnitude 5 on March 10, 2020 (11 km W of Cicurug, Indonesia). NOAA’s record here begins in AD 416 with a tsunami (Java-S. Java). It grows thinner going back: 4 of the 8 significant earthquakes NOAA lists here are from 1927 on. NOAA lists 11 tsunamis that began within 100 km of Serang. The highest water NOAA records here was 85.27 m, on December 22, 2018. The deadliest, on August 27, 1883, killed 36,000 people here by NOAA’s runup records. NOAA lists 10 significant eruptions of 2 volcanoes within 100 km of Serang. The largest was Krakatau on August 27, 1883, at 6 on the volcanic explosivity index. It killed 36,417 people by NOAA’s count.

The events

  • March 10, 2020Earthquake · M 5.011 km W of Cicurug, IndonesiaUSGS · NOAA NCEI
  • December 22, 2018Tsunami · 85.27 m hereKrakatau · 151 deaths here (NOAA)NOAA NCEI · Wikipedia
  • August 8, 2007Earthquake · M 7.535 km NNE of Rengasdengklok, IndonesiaUSGS
  • June 24, 1933Earthquake · M 7.548 km SW of Kotabumi, IndonesiaUSGS · NOAA NCEI
  • August 27, 1883Eruption · VEI 6Krakatau · 36,417 deaths (NOAA)NOAA NCEI · Wikipedia
  • August 27, 1883Tsunami · 41 m hereKrakatau · 36,000 deaths here (NOAA)NOAA NCEI
  • AD 416TsunamiJava-S. JavaNOAA NCEI

Good to know

  • An event counts for Serang 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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