What the records say
- When
- 28 Sep 2018
- Kind
- Earthquake
- Magnitude
- 7.5
- Where
- Indonesia
- Coordinates
- 0.26° S, 119.85° E
- Deaths
- 4340
- Injuries
- 10679
- Missing
- 667
- Damage musd
- 1500
- Houses destroyed
- 3673
- Intensity mmi
- 9
2018 Sulawesi earthquake and tsunami
7 Mw earthquake and tsunami in Indonesia
On 28 September 2018, a shallow, large earthquake struck in the neck of the Minahasa Peninsula, Indonesia, with its epicentre located in the mountainous Donggala Regency, Central Sulawesi. The magnitude 7.5–7.6 quake was located 70 km (43 mi) away from the provincial capital Palu and was felt as far away as Samarinda on East Kalimantan and also in Tawau, Malaysia.
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- NCEI significant earthquakes, tsunamis and volcanic eruptionsNOAA National Centers for Environmental InformationPublic domainSource page
- Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “A magnitude 7.5 earthquake hits Sulawesi, Indonesia, causing a tsunami that kills at least 4,340 people and injures more than 10,679 others”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (German), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Durch ein Erdbeben und einen dadurch ausgelösten Tsunami sterben auf der indonesischen Insel Sulawesi mehr als 2000 Menschen und hunderte werden verletzt”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (French), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “un séisme suivi d'un tsunami sur l'île de Célèbes fait au moins et”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (Russian), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Землетрясение и цунами на Сулавеси, Индонезия”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (Spanish), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “en la isla de Célebes (Indonesia) se produce un fuerte terremoto de 7.5”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (Chinese), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “2018年苏拉威西岛地震”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
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