Significant earthquakes of 1659

November 9, 1659 Earthquake: Banda Sea, Indonesia

November 9, 1659

An earthquake struck Banda Sea, Indonesia on November 9, 1659. It caused a tsunami.

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Where it struck, with the other significant earthquakes within 200 km. Circles are sized and colored by magnitude; select one for its page.

The earthquake

Date
November 9, 1659
Place
Banda Sea, Indonesia
Intensity
VII, very strong shaking, on the Modified Mercalli scale
Epicenter
6.920° S, 129.125° E
Country
Indonesia
Region
Central and South Pacific

The toll

The record gives no deaths, injuries or damage for this earthquake.

What the record says

NCEI’s account, from the sources it cites.

Reference #414:

1659, November 11. Teun Island. Strong earthquakes on the 9th, accompanied by a rumble, forced the local residents to flee to Nila and Damar Islands.

Sources NCEI cites

The publications NCEI lists for this record. The numbers match the “reference #” notes in its account above.

  1. #414 Soloviev, S.L., and Ch.N. Go (1974). A catalogue of tsunamis on the western shore of the Pacific Ocean [dates include 173-1968. Academy of Sciences of the USSR, Nauka Publishing House, Moscow, 439 p. [Canadian Translation of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences no. 5077, 1984, translation available from Canada Institute for Scientific and Technical Information, National Research Council, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada K1A OS2, 447 p.]
  2. #11528 Harris, Ron, Jonathan Major (2016). Waves of destruction in the East Indies: the Wichmann catalogue of earthquakes and tsunami in the Indonesian region from 1538 to 1877. In Geohazards in Indonesia: Earth Science for Disaster Risk Reduction, P. R. Cummins and I. Meilano (eds.), Geological Society London, Special Publications, vol. 441. DOI:10.1144/SP441.2

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Sources

Significant earthquakes from NOAA’s National Centers for Environmental Information, Global Historical Hazard Database, cited as NCEI/WDS, doi:10.7289/V5PN93H7. Public domain. Read 2026-10-01. NCEI earthquake 6027.