October 10, 2002 Earthquake: Manokwari, Oransbari, Ransiki, New Guinea, Indonesia
A magnitude 7.6 earthquake struck Manokwari, Oransbari, Ransiki, New Guinea, Indonesia on October 10, 2002 at 10:50:20 UTC, 10 km below the surface. It killed 8 people.
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The earthquake
- Date
- October 10, 2002
- Time
- 10:50:20 UTC
- Place
- Manokwari, Oransbari, Ransiki, New Guinea, Indonesia
- Magnitude
- 7.6 (Mw)
- Focal depth
- 10 km (6 mi)
- Tsunami
- Yes: the tsunami it caused
- Epicenter
- 1.757° S, 134.297° E
- Country
- Indonesia
The toll
- Deaths
- 8
- Injuries
- 632
- Damage
- Severe (about $5 to $25 million)
- Houses destroyed
- 1,000
- Houses damaged
- 900
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.
What the record says
NCEI’s account, from the sources it cites.
Eight people killed, at least 632 injured, more than 1,000 houses destroyed or severely damaged and about 900 buildings partially damaged in the Manokwari-Oransbari-Ransiki area. Landslides blocked roads in the area. A surface fault 3 km long occurred at Ransiki. Many houses were flooded by a local tsunami with estimated wave heights of 3 to 5 meters at Oransbari and Ransiki and 1 meter at Manokwari. Liquefaction occurred along the coast at Manokwari, Oransbari and Ransiki and subsidence of approximately 2 to 3 meters observed at Oransbari.
Other significant earthquakes nearby
Within 200 km, the deadliest first.
- May 23, 1864, Manokwari, Irian Jaya, Indonesia
- September 12, 1979, Irian Jaya, New Guinea, Indonesia
- September 20, 2002, Ransiki, Irian Jaya, New Guinea, Indonesia
- November 17, 1985, Manokwari, Irian Jaya, New Guinea, Indonesia
- January 7, 2008, Manokwari,, New Guinea, Indonesia
- January 3, 2009, Near North Coast, Papua New Guinea, Indonesia
- January 13, 1916, Irian Jaya, New Guinea, Indonesia
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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 2026-09-24. NCEI earthquake 5656.