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Official Journal of the Asia Oceania Geosciences Society (AOGS)

Table 1 Recent major earthquakes in the western part of Java

From: Upper crustal shear-wave velocity structure Beneath Western Java, Indonesia from seismic ambient noise tomography

Date

Magnitude

Description

References

17 July 2006

Mw 7.7

Pangandaran Tsunami Earthquake with run up 5–8 m, ~ 800 killed and missing, MMI V

(Ammon et al. 2006; Fujii and Satake 2006)

2 September 2009

Mw 7.0

Tasikmalaya Earthquake with MMI VII in Tasikmalaya, ~ 110 killed, triggered landslide in Cikangkareng Area

(Suardi et al. 2014; Gunawan et al. 2019)

15 December 2017

Mw 6.5

Earthquake near Pangandaran with MMI maximum V-VI, many building damaged including hospital

(Sirait et al. 2020)

23 January 2018

Mw 5.9

Offshore Lebak, Banten Area. The shaking could be felt in a wide area (until Jakarta), many building damaged, 2 killed and 41 injuries

(Sirait et al. 2020)

2 August 2019

Mw 6.9

Labuan Earthquake, Southern coast of Banten. The shaking could be felt widely until Jakarta

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