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{{{!class="wikitable sortable" {{!+List of significant tsunamis in Indonesia !Event !Date !Location !class="unsortable"{{!Summary !class="unsortable"{{!Notes {{!- {{! 1797 Sumatra earthquake {{!{{sort, 1797-02-10, 10 February 1797 {{!Padang {{!Tsunami localized to Padang, Sumatra, Indonesia {{! {{!- {{!

1833 Sumatra earthquake The 1833 Sumatra earthquake occurred on November 25 at about 22:00 local time, with an estimated magnitude in the range of 8.8–9.2 . It caused a large tsunami that flooded the southwestern coast of the island. There are no reliable records o ...

{{!{{sort, 1797-11-25, 25 November 1833 {{!Sumatra {{!Tsunami along the southwest coast of Sumatra {{! {{!- {{!

1861 Sumatra earthquake The 1861 Sumatra earthquake occurred on 16 February and was the last in a sequences of earthquakes that ruptured adjacent parts of the Sumatran segment of the Sunda megathrust. It caused a devastating tsunami which led to several thousand fatali ...

{{!{{sort, 1797-02-16, 16 February 1861 {{!Sumatra {{!Tsunami along the northwest coast of Sumatra {{! {{!- {{!

1883 eruption of Krakatoa Beginning on 20 May 1883, and ending on 21 October 1883, the volcanic island of Krakatoa, located in the Sunda Strait, had repeated, months long Types of volcanic eruptions, volcanic eruptions. The most destructive of these eruptions occurred o ...

{{!{{sort, 1883-08-27, 27 August 1883 {{!Krakatoa {{!Collapse of Krakatoa caused tsunami sweeping over neighbouring islands and onto Sumatra and Java {{! {{! {{!- {{! 1992 Flores earthquake and tsunami {{!{{sort, 1992-12-12, 12 December 1992 {{!

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{{!1,490 deaths in Maumere and 700 in Babi Island. {{!3–4 metres wave run up heights occurred along the eastern coasts of Maumere, Maximum run up height of 26 metres (85 feet) at Riangkroko village. {{! {{!- {{! 1994 Java earthquake {{!{{sort, 1994-06-03, 3 June 1994 {{!Eastern coasts of Java, Bali {{!250 deaths caused by tsunami. {{!Run up heights of 14 metres on Eastern Java coast, 5 metres on Bali coasts. {{! {{!- {{!

2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami On 26 December 2004, at 07:58:53 local time ( UTC+7), a major earthquake with a magnitude of 9.2–9.3 struck with an epicentre off the west coast of Aceh in northern Sumatra, Indonesia. The undersea megathrust earthquake, known in the sci ...

{{!{{sort, 2004-12-26, 26 December 2004 {{!Aceh {{!Large earthquake near Aceh, Sumatra, Indonesia causing a transoceanic tsunami {{!One of the deadliest natural disasters in recorded history, with a death toll of 227,898. {{! {{!- {{!

2006 Pangandaran earthquake and tsunami An earthquake occurred on July 17, 2006, at along a subduction zone off the coast of West Java, west and central Java, a large and densely populated island in the Indonesian archipelago. The shock had a Moment magnitude scale, moment magnitude ...

{{!{{sort, 2006-07-17, 17 July 2006 {{!South and west coasts of

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{{!668 deaths occurred as a result of a tsunami which inundated 300 km of coast line on the southern Java coast. {{! {{!- {{!

2010 Mentawai earthquake and tsunami The 2010 Mentawai earthquake occurred with a Moment magnitude scale, moment magnitude of 7.8 on 25 October off the western coast of Sumatra at 21:42 local time (14:42 UTC). The earthquake occurred on the same fault that produced the 2004 Indian O ...

{{!{{sort, 2010-10-25, 25 October 2010 {{!Mentawai Islands {{!Tsunami swept the coastal areas of the Mentawai Islands, off the west coast of Sumatra {{! {{!- {{!

2018 Sulawesi earthquake and tsunami On 28 September 2018, a shallow, large earthquake struck in the neck of the Minahasa Peninsula, Indonesia, with its epicentre located in the mountainous Donggala Regency, Central Sulawesi. The magnitude 7.5–7.6 quake was located away from th ...

{{!{{sort, 2018-09-28, 28 September 2018 {{!Palu {{!Large earthquake near Donggala caused a tsunami that funneled into a bay rising high at Palu, Sulawesi, Indonesia {{! {{!- {{!

2018 Sunda Strait tsunami The 2018 Sunda Strait tsunami ( Indonesian: ''Tsunami Selat Sunda 2018'') occurred on 22 December 2018 at around 21:38 local time after large parts of the southwestern side of Anak Krakatoa collapsed onto its caldera. The landslide spawned a tsu ...

{{!{{sort, 2018-12-22, 22 December 2018 {{!Banten – Lampung {{!Eruption of the Anak Krakatau volcano in the Sunda Strait caused a tsunami and landslide {{! {{!}

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