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Historic Earthquake
1917 Indonesia Earthquake
30 August 1917 · Banda Sea · Indonesia
On 30 August 1917 at 04:07 UTC, a magnitude 7.8 earthquake struck Indonesia (Banda Sea), at a depth of 100 km. It occurred on the Timor Plate, 59 km from its boundary with the Banda Sea Plate (collision zone).
- Date
- 30 August 1917
- Time
- 04:07 UTC
- Magnitude
- 7.8
- Depth
- 100 km
- Plate
- Timor Plate
- Country
- Indonesia
- Nearest Volcano
- Wurlali (85 km)
Nearby Major Earthquakes
Other major earthquakes recorded within 300 km.
- 20232023 Maluku Earthquake · M 7.61 deaths
- 20062006 Banda Sea Earthquake · M 7.6
- 1963Banda Sea · M 8.3
- 1950Banda Sea · M 8.1
- 1918Banda Sea · M 8.1
Sources: NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Global Significant Earthquake Database (doi:10.7289/V5TD9V7K) · Wikidata · Bird (2003), PB2002 · Natural Earth