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The 1992 Flores earthquake and tsunami occurred on 12 December on the island of Flores in Indonesia. With a magnitude of 7.8 and a maximum Mercalli intensity of VIII (Severe), it was the largest and also the deadliest earthquake in 1992 and in the Lesser Sunda Islands region. The earthquake was caused by slip on the Flores Thrust fault.
7.8 M w Indonesia: Deadliest: 7.8 M w Indonesia ... 4.0–4.9: 5,130: ← 1991. 1993 →. This is a list of earthquakes in 1992. Only earthquakes of magnitude 6 or ...
Large numbers of earthquakes of smaller magnitude occur very regularly due to the meeting of major tectonic plates in the region. Based on the records of the USGS, Indonesia has had more than 150 earthquakes with magnitude > 7 in the period 1901–2019.
On 26 june 1976, the 1976 Papua earthquake left destruction in the island of Papua, causing landslides that killed at least 422 and left over 5,000 missing that were presumed dead. [6] In 1992 the 1992 Flores earthquake and tsunami happened on December 12, having a magnitude of 7.8 and leaving 2,500 dead and 500 injured. [7]
A magnitude 5.6 earthquake last year killed at least 602 people in West Java’s Cianjur city. It was the deadliest in Indonesia since a 2018 quake and tsunami in Sulawesi killed more than 4,300 ...
A magnitude 5.6 earthquake last year killed some 600 in West Java’s Cianjur city. It was the deadliest in Indonesia since a 2018 quake and tsunami in Sulawesi killed more than 4,300 people.
The National Disaster Mitigation Agency said it expected the death toll to rise once the rubble of more than 13,000 damaged houses was cleared away.
The ReliefWeb Indonesian page provides information on disasters in Indonesia since the mid-1980s. The website of the Java Reconstruction Fund, which was established after the major earthquake in Yogyakarta in 2006, provides useful references about approaches to disaster relief in Indonesia. Disaster displacement: Indonesia country briefing, 2023