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Magnitude4.9

Reviewed by USGSIndonesia20y ago

M4.9 earthquake 168 km SSW of Sidareja, Indonesia

Thursday, August 24, 2006, 22:37:36 UTC · 8.972°S, 108.446°E

A magnitude 4.9 earthquake struck 168 km SSW of Sidareja, Indonesia on Thursday, August 24, 2006, 22:37:36 UTC, at a depth of 10.0 km (shallow). It is the strongest earthquake within 300 km since an M4.9 on August 12, 2006.

Magnitude
4.9
Light · mb
Depth
10 km
Shallow
Felt reports
0
Did You Feel It?
Est. shaking
—
No ShakeMap
PAGER alert
None
Not issued
Tsunami
No flag
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In context

How big was it, and why here?

Energy released

338 tons of TNT

That is about 1/45 of the Hiroshima bomb. A magnitude 5.0 releases about 1 times more energy.

Tectonic setting

132 km

from the nearest mapped plate boundary, between the Sunda and Australian plates. Earthquakes this far from a boundary happen on faults inside a plate, often less frequently but sometimes strongly.

Depth: shallow

10 km

Shallow earthquakes (under 70 km) produce the strongest surface shaking for their size, so they are the ones most likely to cause damage near the epicenter.

Did You Feel It?

Where it was felt

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USGS PAGER estimate

Who was exposed to shaking

USGS publishes PAGER impact estimates for significant earthquakes, usually within an hour. No PAGER estimate is available for this event.

After the main event

Aftershocks within 50 km

USGS has not published any M2.5+ earthquake within 50 km in the 30 days after this event.

Regional history

Past M5+ earthquakes within 300 km

USGS lists 313 M5.0+ earthquakes within 300 km before this one (catalog from 1900; older records are less complete). The strongest:

  1. 7.7226 km SSW of Singaparna, IndonesiaJuly 17, 2006 · 118 km W of this epicenter
  2. 7.6233 km S of Pundong, IndonesiaSeptember 11, 1921 · 270 km SE of this epicenter
  3. 7.487 km SSW of Srandakan, IndonesiaJuly 23, 1943 · 158 km E of this epicenter
  4. 7.1138 km SSE of Pundong, IndonesiaSeptember 10, 1926 · 241 km E of this epicenter
  5. 6.9south of Java, IndonesiaJuly 24, 1979 · 255 km S of this epicenter
  6. 6.992 km S of Pundong, IndonesiaSeptember 27, 1937 · 218 km E of this epicenter
  7. 6.5260 km SSW of Kroya, IndonesiaSeptember 7, 1974 · 94 km S of this epicenter

History · NOAA

Deadliest earthquakes in this area

NOAA’s significant-earthquake database lists 29 damaging, deadly or tsunami-generating earthquakes within 300 km of this epicenter since 1700, which together caused about 8,083 recorded deaths. The most severe:

  1. 2006M6.3

    Java: Bantul, Yogyakarta

    26 May 2006 · 247 km away

    6,234 deaths$3.1 billion damage

  2. 2006M7.7

    Java

    17 Jul 2006 · 118 km away

    802 deaths$55 million damagetsunami

  3. 1924

    Java: Wonosobo

    2 Dec 1924 · 245 km away · intensity IX

    727 deathsSevere damage ($5–24M)

  4. 1943M8.1

    Java: Jogyakarta

    23 Jul 1943 · 180 km away · intensity VIII

    213 deathsSevere damage ($5–24M)

  5. 1924

    Java

    12 Nov 1924 · 238 km away

    60 deaths

  6. 1979M6.1

    Java

    2 Nov 1979 · 148 km away

    30 deaths$16 million damage

NOAA NCEI Global Significant Earthquake Database. Historical figures are estimates; older records are incomplete.

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