Earthquakes near Tegal, 1927–2026

None reached magnitude 7: the strongest was a magnitude 5.2 on June 16, 1971 (Java: Buaran,Bantar Kawsun,Jipang). It was also the deadliest: NOAA records one death for it. NOAA records deaths in 11 of the events here, 726 in all. The latest on NOAA’s list is a magnitude 4.5 on July 7, 2024 (7 km ENE of Pekalongan, Indonesia). NOAA lists one tsunami from elsewhere that reached the coast within 100 km of Tegal with deaths or a metre of water or more. The highest water NOAA records here was 6.83 m, on July 17, 2006. The deadliest here came on July 17, 2006 from a magnitude 7.7 earthquake (South Of Java): NOAA’s runup records count 280 deaths within 100 km of Tegal. NOAA lists 8 significant eruptions of one volcano within 100 km of Tegal. The largest was Dieng Volcanic Complex on May 13, 1928, at 2 on the volcanic explosivity index. The deadliest was Dieng Volcanic Complex on February 20, 1979, which killed 149 people by NOAA’s count.

• July 7, 2024Earthquake · M 4.57 km ENE of Pekalongan, IndonesiaUSGS · NOAA NCEI
• July 17, 2006Tsunami · 6.83 m hereSouth Of Java · 280 deaths here (NOAA)NOAA NCEI · Wikipedia
• March 21, 2003Earthquake · M 4.6Java: Caracas, Cilimus, SamporaNOAA NCEI
• February 20, 1979Eruption · VEI 1Dieng Volcanic Complex · 149 deaths (NOAA)NOAA NCEI · Wikipedia
• June 16, 1971Earthquake · M 5.2Java: Buaran,Bantar Kawsun,Jipang · one death (NOAA)NOAA NCEI
• May 13, 1928Eruption · VEI 2Dieng Volcanic Complex · 40 deaths (NOAA)NOAA NCEI · Wikipedia

• An event counts for Tegal 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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