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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.
1899 Ceram earthquake; 1907 Sumatra earthquake; 1909 Kerinci earthquake; 1917 Bali earthquake; 1926 Padang Panjang earthquakes; 1931 Southwest Sumatra earthquake; 1933 Sumatra earthquake; 1935 Sumatra earthquake; 1943 Alahan Panjang earthquakes; 1943 Central Java earthquake; 1968 Sulawesi earthquake; 1969 Sulawesi earthquake; 1976 Papua ...
A major earthquake in Yogyakarta on 27 May 2006 killed 5,716 people. [10] A magnitude 7.7 earthquake caused a tsunami around west and central Java on 17 July 2006 and killed 668 people. [11] The 2009 Sumatra earthquakes on 30 September caused severe damages in Western Sumatra, killing around 1,110 people and leaving 2,180 injured. [12]
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
It is also the worst natural disaster in the history of Indonesia, Maldives, Sri Lanka and Thailand. [13] It was the most powerful earthquake ever recorded in Asia, the most powerful earthquake in the 21st century, and at least the third most powerful earthquake ever recorded in the world since modern seismography began in 1900.
Indonesia, a vast archipelago of 270 million people, is frequently struck by earthquakes, volcanic eruptions and tsunamis because of its location on the “Ring of Fire,” an arc of volcanoes and ...
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.
It was also the source of the 1992 and 2018 earthquakes that caused many fatalities. [7] The 1815 event is the earliest documented earthquake along the fault. [9] Modelling of a moment magnitude 7.3 earthquake at 10 km (6.2 mi) depth could produce Modified Mercalli intensity VIII–IX along the north central and eastern parts of Bali.