Earthquakes near Sukawati, 1927–2026

It was also the deadliest: NOAA records 573 deaths for it. 11 earthquakes here in these years are on NOAA’s list of significant earthquakes. NOAA records deaths in 9 of the events here, 1,650 in all. The latest on NOAA’s list is a magnitude 4.9 on September 7, 2024 (11 km NE of Ubud, Indonesia). NOAA lists one tsunami that began within 100 km of Sukawati, and 3 from elsewhere that reached it with deaths or a metre of water or more. The highest water NOAA records here was 5.6 m, on June 2, 1994. The deadliest here came on June 2, 1994 from a magnitude 7.8 earthquake (South Of Java): NOAA’s runup records count 13 deaths within 100 km of Sukawati. NOAA lists 3 significant eruptions of 2 volcanoes within 100 km of Sukawati. The largest was Agung on March 18, 1963, at 5 on the volcanic explosivity index. It killed 1,028 people by NOAA’s count.

• September 7, 2024Earthquake · M 4.911 km NE of Ubud, Indonesia · one death (NOAA)USGS · NOAA NCEI
• June 2, 1994Tsunami · 5.6 m hereSouth Of Java · 13 deaths here (NOAA)NOAA NCEI · Wikipedia
• December 17, 1979Earthquake · M 6.320 km WNW of Senggigi, Indonesia · 27 deaths (NOAA)USGS · NOAA NCEI · Wikipedia
• July 14, 1976Earthquake · M 6.56 km WNW of Seririt, Indonesia · 573 deaths (NOAA)USGS · NOAA NCEI · Wikipedia
• March 18, 1963Eruption · VEI 5Agung · 1,028 deaths (NOAA)NOAA NCEI · Wikipedia

• An event counts for Sukawati 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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