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Historic Earthquake
1917 Indonesia Earthquake
20 January 1917 · Bali · Indonesia
On 20 January 1917 at 23:11 UTC, a magnitude 6.6 earthquake struck Indonesia (Bali). It occurred on the Sunda Plate, 476 km from its boundary with the Australian Plate (subduction zone). It killed at least 1,500 people.
- Date
- 20 January 1917
- Time
- 23:11 UTC
- Magnitude
- 6.6
- Maximum Intensity
- IX (Mercalli)
- Deaths
- 1,500
- Tsunami
- See the tsunami (2.0 m wave)
- Plate
- Sunda Plate
- Country
- Indonesia
- Nearest Volcano
- Mount Batur (154 km)
Nearby Major Earthquakes
Other major earthquakes recorded within 300 km.
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- 19761976 Bali Earthquake · M 6.5573 deaths
Sources: NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Global Significant Earthquake Database (doi:10.7289/V5TD9V7K) · Wikidata · Bird (2003), PB2002 · Natural Earth