Indonesia earthquakes

M6.1 earthquake 39 km S of Kroya, Indonesia

A magnitude 6.1 earthquake struck 39 km S of Kroya, Indonesia on Sat, Jan 25, 2014, 12:14 PM GMT+7 (05:14 UTC), 66 km (41 mi) below the surface.

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The earthquake

Magnitude: 6.1 (mww), strong
Local time: Sat, Jan 25, 2014, 12:14 PM GMT+7
UTC: 2014-01-25 05:14:18 UTC
Depth: 66.0 km (41.0 mi), shallow
Epicenter: 7.986° S, 109.265° E
Region: Indonesia
Felt reports: 28
Strongest shaking: V, moderate shaking
PAGER alert: Green
Tsunami flag: No
Status: Reviewed by a seismologist

Deaths and damage

From NOAA NCEI’s Significant Earthquake Database (record 10070), matched to this event by time and place.

Damage: Limited (under about $1 million)
Houses destroyed: 1
Houses damaged: Some (about 51 to 100)

Where the literature gives no number, NCEI records a description on a scale of 1 to 4, printed here in its words. Damage is in millions of US dollars of the year of the event, not adjusted for inflation.

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Shaking

The USGS ShakeMap: shaking estimated from seismic stations and the quake’s size, on the Modified Mercalli intensity scale.

Strongest estimated: V, moderate shaking
Peak ground acceleration: 7.0% of gravity
Peak ground velocity: 1.4 cm/s
Map: Automatic

USGS ShakeMap: estimated shaking intensity around the epicenter — Estimated shaking intensity. Map: USGS ShakeMap.

Did you feel it?

28 people reported to the USGS what they felt; the strongest reported shaking was VI, strong shaking.

Estimated impact

The USGS PAGER system estimates deaths and economic losses from the shaking and the population and buildings exposed to it.

Alert level: Green: little or no damage or loss of life expected

Fault motion and ground failure

How the rock slipped, from the moment tensor, and the USGS estimate of landslides and liquefaction.

Faulting: Normal
Moment magnitude: 6.1 Mww
Nodal plane 1: Strike 107°, dip 75°, rake -94°
Nodal plane 2: Strike 303°, dip 15°, rake -74°

How well it is located

Reviewed by a seismologist.

Depth from: FROM_MODELING_OF_BROAD_BAND_P_WAVEFORMS
Station coverage gap: 20°
Stations used: 193

Nearest places

Distance and direction from each place to the epicenter, with its forecast.

Nearby

Within 100 km, magnitude 3.1 and up: 16 in the 60 days after this one and 2 in the 30 days before it.

After

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Sources

From the USGS Earthquake Hazards Program and its partner networks, event usb000m7wd (also filed as iscgem604007560, atlas20140125051418). Read Tue, Sep 29, 2026, 2:10 PM UTC.